Tag: coastline

• Monday, March 16th 2020 - 10:23 UTC

  Oil drilling sediment shows Falklands could have suffered a tsunami a million years ago

  

  Scientists have found evidence of ancient slope failures on the seafloor to the south of the Falkland Islands on the South Atlantic. Computer models suggest these underwater landslides would have been capable of sending waves crashing on to the Falklands' coastline that was tens of meters high.