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Tiny fossils, huge landslides: Are diatoms the key to Earth's biggest slides?

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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.

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Unkown User, "Tiny fossils, huge landslides: Are diatoms the key to Earth's biggest slides?", MachPrinciple, February 14, 2018, https://machprinciple.com/post/Tiny-fossils-huge-landslides-Are-diatoms-the-key-to-Earth-s-biggest-slides-

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