New scenario for the India-Asia collision dynamics
Credit: ©Science China Press To elucidate the timing, location and geodynamic models of the India-Asia collision, Yuan and colleagues conducted ...
Tag: Geology/Soil
Scientists record rapid carbon loss from warming peatlands
Credit: Misha Krassovski/ORNL,U.S. Dept. of Energy Scientists at the Department of Energy's Oak Ridge National Laboratory have demonstrated a direct ...
Model links patterns in sediment to rain, uplift and sea level change
Credit: Jinyu Zhang/ The University of Texas at Austin. Forces that shape the Earth's surface are recorded in a number ...
New depth map of the Arctic Ocean
The IBCAO 4.0 bathymetric chartCredit: Stockholm University (Sweden) An international team of researchers has published the most detailed submarine map ...
Samara Polytech scientists suggest a new way of high viscosity oil recovery
The innovative technology is cost-efficient, environmentally friendly and efficientCredit: @SamaraPolytech Recently in Russia there has been a significant increase in ...
“Inchworm” pattern of Indonesian earthquake rupture powered seismic “boom”
University of Tsukuba researchers report "inchworm-like" slip evolution of supershear rupture along the Palu-Koro fault during the 2018 Palu earthquake ...
Desert mosses use quartz rocks as sun shades
Some mosses in the Mojave Desert live under translucent quartz as protection from the sunCredit: Kirsten Fisher. CSU-Los Angeles Living ...
Solving the jigsaw puzzle of regional carbon budgets
Credit: ©Science China Press Accurate regional carbon budgets are critical for informing land-based mitigation policy and tracking mitigation progress. For ...
Ocean features and changes in the past are explored to anticipate future climate
A study by the University of the Basque Country (UPV/EHU) provides a detailed description of the climate changes taking place ...
Big wheel ruts, big economic losses
Credit: Jodi DeJong-Hughes Excessively wet field conditions at harvest throughout the North Central and upper Midwest regions resulted in many ...
2,000 years of storms in the Caribbean
Geoscientists from Goethe University create sedimentary archive with annual resolutionCredit: (Photo: Gischler) FRANKFURT. The hurricanes in the Caribbean became more ...
Neanderthals of Western Mediterranean did not become extinct because of changes in climate
Credit: Photo: O. Lacarbonara Homo Neanderthaliensis did not become extinct because of changes in climate. At least, this did not ...
Plato was right. Earth is made, on average, of cubes
The ancient Greek philosopher was on to something, researchers foundCredit: Courtesy of Gablor Domokos and Douglas Jerolmack Plato, the Greek ...
Arizona rock core sheds light on triassic dark ages
Credit: Cornelia Rasmussen A rock core from Petrified Forest National Park, Arizona, has given scientists a powerful new tool to ...
Native bushland’s fertility secret
Soil microbes could promote better farm outputsCredit: CSIRO In hotter, dryer conditions with climate change, a secret agent for more ...
Breakthrough in studying ancient DNA from Doggerland that separates the UK from Europe
Credit: Dr Martin Bates, UWTSD Thousands of years ago the UK was physically joined to the rest of Europe through ...
Research push will examine how plants and microbes interact and adapt during drought
Credit: Gabriel Castrillo LAWRENCE -- Just below ground, an ancient and poorly understood relationship plays out between plants and microbes ...
Bacteria with a metal diet discovered in dirty glassware
Finding ends a century-long search for microbes that live on manganeseCredit: Hang Yu/Caltech Caltech microbiologists have discovered bacteria that feed ...
How much fluorine is too much fluorine?
Credit: James Hanly For most of us, our closest encounter with the element fluorine is likely to be our toothpaste ...
Burrowing crabs reshaping salt marshes, with climate change to blame
Credit: Christine Angelini PROVIDENCE, R.I. -- A new study reveals how climate change has enabled a voracious crab species to ...
