Tag: erosion

You are what you eat, it turns out—even if your last meal was 150 million years ago. While the grub itself may be long gone, a record of dinosaurs' favorite foods has been stowed away in their...
An international research team from the Museum für Naturkunde Berlin and from Buenos Aires and Washington D.C. has identified a new fossil from central Germany, offering fresh insights into the early evolutionary history of archosauromorphs. of...

Research reveals ‘negative feedback’ loop between warming and net exchange of carbon caused by erosion

In the study of human impact on the environment, there are few negative or stabilizing feedbacks on climate change. A team of international scientists, including...

Sea level rise to dramatically speed up erosion of rock coastlines by 2100

Rock coasts, which make up over half the world's coastlines, could retreat more rapidly in the future due to accelerating sea level rise. This is...

Study of meteorites suggests Earth’s composition was changed by collisional erosion

A team of researchers from Université Clermont Auvergne, working with a colleague from Universität Bayreuth, has found evidence that suggests the Earth's composition changed...

High-resolution study on California coastal cliff erosion

The first study to analyze California's coastal cliff retreat statewide using high-resolution data has found that cliffs receded faster in the north than elsewhere...

St. Lawrence shoreline erosion: We must work with, not against, nature

The St. Lawrence riverbanks are eroding. This has an impact on infrastructure, economy and inhabitants' well-being. It exposes communities to flooding and can destroy...

Erosion by the Upper Ebro is decelerating and could eventually stop

How are fluvial valleys formed? Why do rivers cut valleys? Which mechanisms control the rate of fluvial incision? These are universal questions in Geomorphology...

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