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This paper reports the transport and deposition of sediments of various sizes, ranging from mud to boulders, by the 2011 Tohoku-oki tsunami at Miyako City, Japan, where the tsunami reached 28.1m above sea level at the coast and inundated up to 1750m inland. Mud- to cobble-sized sediments formed layered deposits that covered the lowland where paddy fields had been. These layered deposits were remarkably...