Tiny fossils, huge landslides: Are diatoms the key to Earth’s biggest slides?0
- Ancient Archeology, From Around the Web
- February 17, 2018
The biggest landslides on Earth aren’t on land, but on the seafloor. These mega-slides can move thousands of cubic kilometers of material, and sometimes trigger tsunamis. Yet, remarkably, they occur on nearly flat slopes of less than three degrees.