“Extended aging or storage periods can lead to the formation of sediment as certain compounds settle over time,” he says. You ...

Ancient volcanic rock from South Africa has been found to harbour primitive bacteria, which may shed light on some of the ...

Researchers from Stanford University have discovered a global absence of sediment deposits dating back to the ...

Scientists have revealed images of a second massive asteroid impact called Nadir Crater buried 300 meters under the ocean ...

Therefore, the rate of supply of sediment from reefs is a critical control on island formation and future change. The ...

The end of non-avian dinosaur’s time on Earth is often depicted as one big, knockout blow delivered by the cataclysmic ...

New research by Winnie Kortemeier, professor of geosciences at Western Nevada College, places Tahoe in the pantheon of ...

Though the threat of drowning in quicksand may be a core fear of any movie buff, some social media users have claimed it is "physically impossible to sink entirely in quicksand." One Reddit post, ...

The movement of sediment into the back beach environment often results in the formation of coastal dunes. Aa Aa Aa For large-scale coastal dune development there needs to be a suitable wind regime ...

MBARI researchers, working alongside a team of international collaborators, have discovered large underwater ice formations at the edge of the Canadian Beaufort Sea, located in a remote region of the ...

The Romanian Global Water Partnership announces the completion of the first spatio-temporal study on plastic transport in the ...