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From Fear to Survival: Knowledge Is Key Tilly Smith used schoolwork to save her family and others from the 2004 tsunami. ABC News January 20, 2009 Shaky Ground: Tilly Smith, Child Hero KHSU, February 27, 2018 Tilly Smith, Wikipedia Yours, Paul H.

Tiny fossils, huge landslides: Are diatoms the key to Earth's biggest slides? Geological Society of America, February 12, 2018 https://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2018/02/180212133446.htm https://phys.org/news/2018-02-tiny-fossils-huge-diatoms-key.html "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." Morelia Urlaub, Jacob Geersen, Sebastian Krastel, Tilmann Schwenk. Diatom ooze: Crucial for the generation of submarine mega-slides? Geology, 2018; DOI: 10.1130/G39892.1 https://pubs.geoscienceworld.org/gsa/geology/article-abstract/527938/diatom-ooze-crucial-for-the-generation-of?redirectedFrom=fulltext https://pubs.geoscienceworld.org/geology/early-publication Yours, Paul H.

Impact Crater Linked to Martian Tsunamis By Paul Rincon, BBC News website, March 26, 2017 http://www.bbc.com/news/science-environment-39394583 Water On Mars: Researchers Link Lomonosov Crater To Ancient Martian Tsunamis by Avaneesh IBT, March 26, 2017 http://www.ibtimes.com/water-mars-researchers-link-lomonosov-crater-ancient-martian-tsunamis-2515241 The paper is: Costard, F., A. Séjourné, K. Kelfoun, S. Clifford, F. Lavigne, I. Di Pietro, and S. Bouley (2017), Modeling tsunami propagation and the emplacement of thumbprint terrain in an early Mars ocean, Journal Geophysical Research Planets, 122, doi:10.1002/2016JE005230 http://onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/10.1002/2016JE005230/full An article about studying Mars is: Studying Martian Rocks Without Leaving Planet Earth Matching Martian rock formations to those found on Earth can help researchers learn more about the Red Planet. By Alexandra Branscombe, AGU, March 1, 2017 https://eos.org/research-spotlights/studying-martian-rocks-without-leaving-planet-earth Other articles about geological research at https://eos.org/research-spotlights Yours, Paul H.