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Geologists analyze underwater slide that kicked up a tsunami

San Francisco Chronicle: A giant underwater landslide that gouged the bottom of Lake Tahoe thousands of years ago sent a tsunami coursing across the lake and left huge ripples of rock that remain today, geologists have discovered.

Posted by Jenny Corrado on October 27, 2006 11:00 AM |

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