The history of metal pollution in the city of São Paulo, the largest metropolis in Brazil and the Southern Hemisphere, can be read in the layers of sediment accumulated over the last century. Using ...
Sediments are more than just layers of mud on the ground. They can reveal a wealth of information about landscapes from millions of years ago right up to the present day. To delve into those layers, ...
We’ve long expected the West Coast’s worst‑case earthquake as one massive rupture and one prolonged recovery. Scientists recently examined thousands of years’ worth of sediment layers deposited on the ...
A remarkable find beneath the Pacific Ocean uncovers a fragile clay layer that intensified the 2011 Tōhoku earthquake and tsunami in Japan. This concealed geological aspect enabled the rupture to ...
A research project put together in part by San Diego researchers achieved something never before done. The research team recovered lake-bed sediment samples, buried under a 15-meter-deep lake located ...
The sun is shining, and air feels surprisingly warm when we walk on a 35cm ice that covers a frozen lake in central Finland. The heavy sledges move nicely, because there is not much snow on the ice ...
On Earth, ocean tides and winds carry sediment toward the shoreline, where the sediment settles out to form a beach deposit with a characteristic dipping angle. New observations indicate that early in ...
Ancient fossilized trees discovered standing upright through multiple layers of rock across the United States are fueling debate over whether catastrophic flooding events, including the biblical flood ...
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