[Aztlan] pacific coast tidal wave c. 900 AD

[martha noyes]

In a presentation at this weekend's Society for Hawaiian Archaeology  
annual conference, Scott Williams of Oregon, speaking of ongoing (4  
years already) work on a Manila Galleon which disappeared off the  
Nehalem Sand Spit in Oregon, noted the repeated geological evidence  
of a large tidal wave c. 900 AD.

I don't know where the tidal wave is thought to have originated, nor  
do I know enough about tidal waves to have any idea if a large tidal  
wave that impacted the Pacific Northwest coast would have been likely  
to have been experienced as far south as Central America, but I  
thought it might be an interesting bit of data for some folks  
involved in California and Central American archaeology.

So there it is,

Martha