Jodi Fox

@icylava.bsky.social

Researcher of submarine volcanism and volcano-ice interactions. Keen on marine sediment cores and ice cores

Hanging out in Tonga where this “Tsunami Rock” , a boulder chock full of coral has been launched up onto Tongatapu. Wikipedia says it happened in 1917 when a village was also destroyed, the plaque at the site says thousands of years ago. Keen to ask Tongan geos all about it tomorrow 🧪⚒️

A large grey boulder made up of coral sits on a grassy plain. There are some coconut trees nearby and small bushes growing on top of the boulderLayering in limestone in the left side of a grey boulder that also has small green bushes growing on the right sideA fossil of a coral in grey limestone. A hand is at the bottom of the photo for scale. The fossil is about 15 cm wide and is fan shaped.