Raghav GadgilSome people like to measure their financial might by the weight of the precious metals they wear as jewellery: Gold, silver, diamond and platinum.

The study concludes that the amber was originally formed as resin in coastal forests. During massive tsunami events, entire ...

Scientists in Australia have identified the oldest known fossil footprints of a reptile-like animal on a slab of sandstone ...

Yehliu Geopark is renowned for its stunning rock formations, sculpted by the sea erosion and weathering processes. This ...

In this episode, Graham Hancock investigates the Bimini Islands, focusing on the controversial Bimini Road and the reluctance of archaeologists to examine it due to reputational risks. He notes that ...

Industrial waste is turning into rock in "decades", much faster than the millions of years it is thought to take for it to form naturally, according to research carried out along the Cumbrian coast.

When exposed to seawater and air through coastal erosion, these reactive elements create natural cements such as brucite, calcite, and goethite—the same ones that bind natural sedimentary rocks ...

The result is a gap in the sedimentary record which occurs when the age of rocks changes sharply due to the erosion of previous rock, which is then replaced by younger rock. The phenomenon was ...

In the Danxia Shan national geopark tens of millions of years of erosion and tectonic activity have sculpted red sedimentary rock into dramatic peaks and valleys. The area is one of the Danxia ...

In areas with gully erosion of sedimentary rocks, the increased exposure of rock organic carbon due to climate change can result in higher CO 2 emissions, which is currently a major research focus.

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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 ...