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Sascha Pare

Giant underwater avalanche decimated Atlantic seafloor 60,000 years ago, 1st-of-its-kind map reveals

A map of the Atlantic Ocean seabed off the coast of Morocco showing the Agadir Canyon and the path of a huge, ancient underwater avalanche.

An underwater avalanche decimated a huge chunk of the East Atlantic seabed nearly 60,000 years ago, leaving behind an enormous trail of destruction.

The avalanche started as a small seafloor slide in the Agadir Canyon off the coast of Morocco, but it rapidly snowballed into a thunderous torrent of sediment and boulders, according to a new study.

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