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In the anime depiction it showed the sand running deeper similar to how the manga implied it as well by the sand running off page etc. But even then, that strengthens my point when you think about it. Gaara flowed his chakra into the immediate vicinity (the grass-plains), seen when he stomped, and all the materialized sand emerged from within the ground.
I mean imagine if he spread his chakra out further than the small vicinity he'd initially targeted. Obviously he could, at the sheer fact Gaara said it takes no effort/it's no art (meaning its easy af/no swear of his back), with that Pt.1 Gaara could indeed make a sand tsunami > water dome.
That's if you believe that a Pt.1 Gaara who manipulated the small vicinity to create the sand tsunami didn't make it in proportions close to WD.
Yeah, but how much deeper it ran is unknown so there's no way to claim that it can cover an entire forest, and not to mention all forests in the Manga have shown to be unequal in size. So I'm pretty sure that Kisame's Water Dome is easily larger than anything Pt. 1 Gaara can manage, and where did he say it takes no effort to make sand of that scale? He said it's no art to create sand out of soil, not that it's no art to create sand of that scale. So there's no way to actually prove he could manipulate much more than he did in that panel.