While exploring ancient seabeds in Morocco, scientists discovered strange wrinkle-like textures in deep-water sediments that shouldn’t have been there. These structures are usually made by ...

A rock face on the Monte Conero anticline holds many paddle-like footprint tracks packed together on one surface, likely made by sea turtles.

A collaborative research team led by University of Tasmania scientists has returned from a major 54-day voyage on CSIRO research vessel (RV) Investigator to explore the impacts of the devastating 2022 ...

How can we measure the influence of human civilization on the story of planet Earth? There are the relics of culture, tools and keepsakes buried in the ground beneath the ruins of thousand-year-old ...

"Short course ... delivered at the joint annual meeting of the GAC-MAC, St. John's, NL, 25-26 May, 2012." 1. Use of the Mineral Liberation Analyzer (MLA) for Mineralogical Studies of Sediments and ...

A tube of mud can look like nothing special at first. Pull it from half a kilometer under Antarctic ice, though, and every ...

Recent storms left several areas of the borderland recovering from flooding but concerns remain for residents on El Paso’s west side after an arroyo was filled with sediment and rocks that caused an ...

This summer, while you’re chilling at Red Rocks, listening to one of 2015’s more retro acts, like the Music of Abba by Arrival From Sweden, Hall & Oates, Neil Young, or the Moody Blues, consider that ...

Sedimentary rocks are made up of pieces of older rocks (igneous, metamorphic, and sedimentary) and organic remains (shells, bone, etc.). When rocks break apart from erosion they are transported by ...

The rapid development of fauna 540 million years ago has permanently changed the Earth—deep into its lower mantle. A team led by ETH researcher Andrea Giuliani found traces of this development in ...