The Lost Tale of an 18th-Century Tsunami, as Told by Trees
And trees don’t forget. In the 1990s, researchers identified a “ghost forest” of dead cedars near the Washington coast; tree-ring dating confirmed that they’d indeed died in 1700. But Black and Dziak sought out trees that experienced the tsunami—and survive
https://www.greenground.it/2021/09/24/the-lost-tale-of-an-18th-century-tsunami-as-told-by-trees/
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