Typical tsunami sand in Papua New Guinea in 1998
By Pacific Coastal and Marine Science Center
October 1998 (approx.)
![Photograph of the side of a hole dug into wet sediment that shows a boundary between sand brought in by a tsunami and the soil.](https://d9-wret.s3.us-west-2.amazonaws.com/assets/palladium/production/s3fs-public/styles/full_width/public/thumbnails/image/Fig4rev_0.jpg?itok=06dzaACv)
Detailed Description
Figure 4: Typical tsunami deposit from Arop transect. The tsunami deposited a gray-colored sand, here about 5 cm thick, on a brown soil containing roots.
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