Tag: Geology
Where does beach sand come from?
David R. Montgomery, University of Washington
Curious Kids is a series for children of all ages. If you have a question you’d like an expert...
New evidence that an extraterrestrial collision 12,800 years ago triggered an...
Christopher R. Moore, University of South Carolina
What kicked off the Earth’s rapid cooling 12,800 years ago?
In the space of just a couple of years,...
Surveying archaeologists across the globe reveals deeper and more widespread roots...
Ben Marwick, University of Washington; Erle C. Ellis, University of Maryland, Baltimore County; Lucas Stephens, Max Planck Institute for the Science of Human History,...
Drilling deeper wells is a band-aid solution to US groundwater woes
Debra Perrone, University of California, Santa Barbara and Scott Jasechko, University of California, Santa Barbara
With memories of the wettest U.S. spring on record still...
The tell-tale clue to how meteorites were made, at the birth...
William Herbst, Wesleyan University and James Greenwood, Wesleyan University
April 26, 1803 was an unusual day in the small town of L’Aigle in Normandy, France...
Underwater mudslides are the biggest threat to offshore drilling, and energy...
Ian R. MacDonald, Florida State University
Like generals planning for the last war, oil company managers and government inspectors tend to believe that because they...
Welcome to the new Meghalayan age – here’s how it fits...
Steve Petsch, University of Massachusetts Amherst
Jurassic, Pleistocene, Precambrian. The named times in Earth’s history might inspire mental images of dinosaurs, trilobites or other enigmatic...
Injecting wastewater underground can cause earthquakes up to 10 kilometers away
Emily Brodsky, University of California, Santa Cruz
Earthquakes in the central and eastern United States have increased dramatically in the last decade as a result...
EXPLORING NATURE
The chickadee in the snowbank: A ‘canary in the coal mine’...
Benjamin Sonnenberg, University of Nevada, Reno
Wet snow pelts my face and pulls against my skis as I climb...
