The story involves an inland sea, powerful rivers, the shearing of the Earth’s crust along major fault systems, magmatic ...

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 ...

It features scenes of farmers tilling soil, majestic mountain roads, sedimentary rock formations, and granite and marble quarries. The film also highlights natural phenomena such as volcanic ...

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 ...

Plastistones, a new type of sedimentary rock that’s part-plastic and part-rock, has been found on at least five continents and 11 countries. These rocks form when molten plastic cools within a ...