This shifting sediment is crucial for estuarine habitat and geology, creating gravel riffles and channels wherein salmon spawn and escape heat. Migrating birds take refuge in these same deposits. And ...

In 2018, Micallef and his colleagues published a study announcing the discovery of large sediment deposits to the southeast of Sicily ... that was likely carved out by the tsunami-like flood. “This ...

On the broad, flat flood plain where Blydenburgh Park's Stump Pond used to be, wild grasses have sprouted from the ...

The Middle Rio Grande Conservancy District has been preventing floods, providing drainage and releasing irrigation waters for 100 years. Facing a future with increased urbanization, lighter snowpacks ...

New research shows that typically, less than 10% of land-building alluvium reaches the Bird’s Foot Delta region, the ...

New research shows that typically, less than 10% of land-building alluvium reaches the Bird’s Foot Delta region, the ...

the province proposed two flood outlet channels, about 23 km each, which would divert flood waters from Lake Manitoba to Lake St. Martin and into Lake Winnipeg. Lake Manitoba First Nation Chief ...

If you managed to somehow see through all the muddy sediment stirred up by the flood waters, you might have found a few surprised fish in the depths, stunned or struck dead outright by the force ...

or by looking at abrupt changes in sediment deposits near coastlines. However, it can be difficult to differentiate tsunami traces in the fossil record from severe storms, which leave similar ...