More than 230 million years ago, long before giant dinosaurs thundered across Earth, a chicken-sized creature walked near the ...

Although it may feel like it happened in an instant, the formation of the Island of Hawaii’s youngest black sand beach did not happen overnight. This week we explore how the beach at Pohoiki, near the ...

HOLLAND, Mich. — After surveys indicated a shoal formed during the winter months across the entrance to the Holland Harbor, ...

Traces left in wet sediments offer paleontologists unique insights into the lives of extinct animals, including the environments they inhabited, their size and even social habits. The set of ...

The researchers believe that the evidence supports their theories about the Durupınar Formation being an ancient ship, according to The Sun. The Durupınar Formation, located on Mount Ararat in ...

Japan's Self-Defense Forces have held a ceremony to mark the formation of a maritime transport unit for swiftly deploying personnel and equipment to remote islands in the country's southwest and ...

For taxonomic analyses of the respective microbial communities at the end of the incubations, sediment slurries (excl. controls) were harvested at 20,000 g (4°C) for 30 min, washed with 10 mL of 1xPBS ...

Analysis of the sediment in Belize’s Great Blue Hole shows a concerning trend. Blue holes, the name for collapsed limestone ...

Consequently, leveraging the geochemical indices of these elements can furnish valuable information regarding the sediment formation environment. The Sr/Ba ratio serves as a reliable indicator to ...