Coastal wetlands, like salt marshes, keep pace with sea-level rise by accumulating sediment and burying organic carbon in ...

Yellowstone Caldera Chronicles is a weekly column written by scientists and collaborators of the Yellowstone Volcano Observatory. This week's contribution is from Pat Shanks and Lisa Morgan, ...

Image 0: Me collecting sediment cores in Netarts Bay, Oregon. The Cascadia Subduction Zone, which spans from British Columbia to Northern California, periodically experiences megathrust earthquakes M ...

A team of scientists, engineers, and ship's crew on the research vessel Neil Armstrong operated by the Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution (WHOI) recently collected a 38-foot-long cylindrical ...

Under the lead of the Leibniz Institute for Baltic Sea Research Warnemünde (IOW), a sediment core from the Southeast Pacific was examined that reflects the last 8 million years of Earth's history.

MOSS LANDING, CA--Underwater avalanches and turbidity currents carry huge amounts of sediment, organic material, and pollutants down submarine canyons and into the deep sea. Yet geologists know very ...

Lacustrine turbidites offer a reliable record of seismic activity. A typical sedimentary sequence is produced when a turbidity current moves downslope. If the current generates enough energy, this ...

This is a marine sediment core from the bottom of the South Atlantic used to reconstruct the chemical form and bioavailability of iron reaching the Southern Ocean over time. Disclaimer: AAAS and ...

Breakthroughs, discoveries, and DIY tips sent every weekday. Terms of Service and Privacy Policy. For the first time, an international team of scientists recovered a ...

This story is from The Pulse, a weekly health and science podcast. Before dawn on a windy day, two dozen climate scientists shiver on the top deck of a research ship, watching as tugboats pull them ...