Giant underwater landslides in Antarctica, which could have caused tsunami waves that went across the southern hemisphere hundreds of thousands of years ago, could have been passed by past landslides.
Until now, a limitation of records of past fires is that these have come from sediments laid down in lakes and bogs. Records for dryland regions have been lacking, but dune deposits can fill the gap.
New evidence from the bottom of a lake in the remote North Atlantic Faroe Islands indicates that an unknown band of humans settled there around 500 AD some 350 years before the Vikings, who up until recently have been thought to have been the.