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Students Walked Past This Rock for 20 Years. It Turned Out to Host 66 Dinosaur Footprints From the Jurassic Period
For two decades, students walked past an unassuming beige rock on their way to and from class—and occasionally stuck wads of ...
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Geology of Rivers: Sediment, Weathering, and Rock Formation
The film explores the processes of weathering and sedimentation that shape the Earth's surface. It explains how rocks break down into mud and sand through natural elements, which are then carried ...
In A First, Geoscientists Track Earth’s Largest Sediment Avalanches
Using seismic stations usually used for monitoring earthquakes, an international team of geoscientists tracked Earth’s ...
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Rock strength shapes the evolution of Earth's landscapes
New research reveals how rock strength plays a crucial role in erosion, shaping landscapes over millions of years.
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Muddy Waters: The Role of Sediments in River Hydrology
What comes to mind when you imagine a river? A stream of water flowing through landscapes? While that's partly true, rivers are so much more than just water in ...
Machine learning approach simulates geochemical element concentrations in rocks and stream sediments
Researchers led by Prof. Li Nuo from the Xinjiang Institute of Ecology and Geography of the Chinese Academy of Sciences have developed a method to simulate the concentrations of unmeasured geochemical ...
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Footprints of deep-sea mining
Footprints of deep-sea mining New study examines the spread of deep-sea mining sediment plumes Date: March 5, 2025 Source: Helmholtz Centre for Ocean Research Kiel (GEOMAR) Summary: Mining of ...