A team of researchers at the University of Otago in New Zealand has found that studying the genes of kelp growing offshore can reveal some of the earthquake history of a given area. In their paper published in the journal Proceedings of the Royal Society B, the group describes their study of kelp samples taken from sites with a history of earthquakes along the New Zealand coast and what they learned from it.
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