Tag: Geology/Soil

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

July 24, 2020

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

July 24, 2020

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

July 24, 2020

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

July 23, 2020

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

July 22, 2020

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