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The sands of tsunami time

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The scale of the 2004 tsunami that devastated shores around the Indian Ocean has no precedent in written histories of the region. But evidence of similar events has been unearthed from the geological record.

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Figure 1: The town of Lhoknga, on the northwest coast of Sumatra, before (left) and after the tsunami of 26 December 2004.

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  1. Stein Bondevik is in the Department of Geology, University of Tromsø, Norway, and the Faculty of Engineering and Science, Sogn og Fjordane University College, NO-6851 Sogndal, Norway. stein.bondevik@hisf.no,

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