Fly-through of the largest-ever undersea landslide found along the entire margin/slope bordering the Great Barrier Reef, in far north Queensland. The remnants of the sub-marine landslide is approximately 30 times the volume of Uluru. The findings were published recently in the prestigious journal Marine Geology. The scientists – including from the University of Sydney, James Cook University and the University of Granada – went on to model a potential tsunami for a sudden under-sea mass failure on this scale, yielding a wave elevation of about 27m. It is believed that the impact of any resultant wave would be softened significantly by the presence of the relatively modern, 9000-year-old formation we call the Great Barrier Reef, but this remains to be assessed systematically. More sde-revealed-on-great-barrier-reef.html (This content is released under the Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International Licence. https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/. Attribution: www.deepreef.org) Subscribe to our channel: http://bit.ly/2czTNH3 Connect with us: Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/sydneyuni Twitter: https://twitter.com/sydney_uni Instagram: https://instagram.com/sydney_uni Show more