O'ahu's sandy beaches are at risk. New research from the Coastal Research Collaborative (CRC) at the University of Hawai'i ...

Weathering and erosion slowly chisel, polish, and buff Earth's rock into ever evolving works of art—and then wash the remains into the sea. The processes are definitively independent ...

Geologists have long struggled to understand massive time gaps in Earth’s rock record, where millions—sometimes billions—of ...

O‘ahu’s sandy beaches are at risk. New research from the Coastal Research Collaborative (CRC) at the University of Hawai‘i ...

Led by Curtin University geologists Chris Kirkland and Tim Johnson, a research team unearthed this primeval crater beneath rock layers in the East Pilbara Terrane of Western Australia. The oldest ...

In a new paper, Jordan Jensen and Alexis Ault introduce a new forensic tool designed to enhance our understanding of how ...

SMU research reveals glaciers erode mountains faster than previously thought, with implications for climate change models and ...

The Earth's land surface is dominated by sloping landscapes. Every year, soil erosion laterally distributes on the order of 75 Gt of topsoil (Berhe et al. 2007). The coupled biogeochemical cycles ...

Soil erosion is a part of soil degradation ... A teaspoon of soil can contain more organisms than there are humans living on Earth. A type of mycorrhizal fungi forming a symbiotic relationship with a ...

Erosion is the process of moving the small pieces ... Over time there have been lots of different theories about the age of the Earth. For thousands of years, most people believed that the Earth ...

Erosion also breaks up the rocks that are carried by the river. Landslides are occasional, rapid movements of a mass of earth or rock sliding along a steep slope. They can occur after periods of ...