The Cayman Islands Government is developing a cruise berthing facility and an enhanced cargo port in George Town, a project ...

Stanford researchers have developed an artificial intelligence-based tool—dubbed SandAI—that can reveal the history of quartz ...

“In recent months,” Nuzzo said, “laboratory analyses conducted on samples taken from the burials and depositional beds have ...

The Nail Quarry is one of the only active dinosaur sites on the famous Como Bluff near Medicine Bow. Every summer, the last ...

Some of the most dramatic climatic events in our planet's history are "Snowball Earth" events that happened hundreds of ...

An analogous landscape resembling this depositional environment could be the Basin and Range province covering much of the Western United States and northwestern Mexico today. The basalt pebbles ...

Science X is a network of high quality websites with most complete and comprehensive daily coverage of the full sweep of ...

The diagram shows the building of a spit by longshore drift across the mouth of a river. Sandspits often have a curved or hooked end as a secondary wind and wave direction curves the end of the ...

Bands of soft rock such as clay and sand are weaker and therefore they can be eroded quickly. This process forms bays. A bay is an inlet of the sea where the land curves inwards, usually with a ...

Quantitative analyses of the spatial distribution of supercritical-flow deposit (SFD) reaveals a new proxy for ...

"Modern" refers to deposits whose geometry and surface morphology reflect original depositional conditions, usually on the seafloor or in the shallow subsurface (Mutti & Normark 1991). "Ancient ...

The morphology of blowouts is characterised by a deflation (erosional) basin floor or depression, lateral erosional walls, and a downwind depositional lobe (Figures 2 and 3, photo 6). The sand ...