Nutt is interested in understanding how the erosion of shale contributes to natural variations in Earth’s climate, which is the focus of Nutt’s dissertation. Shale is a specific kind of sedimentary ...

"The spikes are most likely the cemented fillings of ancient fractures in a sedimentary rock ... were probably created by erosion. A photo of a vertical rock formation taken on the surface ...

In a recent study in the journal Sedimentologika, for example, researchers documented a new kind of sedimentary rock made from coastal ... and prevent coastal erosion — an approach that would ...

Sedimentary rock is one of the three main rock groups (along with igneous and metamorphic rocks) and is formed in four main ways: by the deposition of the weathered remains of other rocks (known ...

The team speculates that erosion likely drove the greenfin darter ... whereas the northern half consists of sedimentary rock, where the fish are not found. They also observed that the rivers ...

Shorelines worldwide have always been vulnerable to coastal erosion, a phenomenon rendered more ominous by rising sea levels that accompany modern-day climate change (SN: 9/29/22). Coastal ...