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Nature 408, 651 (7 December 2000) | doi:10.1038/35047190

Earth science: Not making waves

Laura Garwin

When Bill Gates got married on the Hawaiian island of Lana'i, he might have wondered how the coral-rich gravel outcrops shown here came to be 30 metres above sea level. If so, he would have been told that these gravels, and others even higher up, were deposited by a giant tsunami 105,000 years ago.