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Tuesday, November 8, 2011

Irish coast mystery: How did those boulders get up there? Research team now finds storms, not tsunamis, tossed massive rocks inland

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On a trio of tiny islands off Ireland’s western coast, there is a mystery afoot. Something has picked up massive boulders and set them down inland, on a flat, wind-lashed landscape encircled by craggy cliffs that rise from the Atlantic Ocean.