Scientists found that Great Salt Lake’s chemistry and water balance were stable for thousands of years, until human ...

Analysis of ocean sediments has surfaced geochemical clues in line with the possibility that an encounter with a ...

Beneath the North Sea, scientists have uncovered colossal sand formations, dubbed “sinkites,” that have mysteriously sunk ...

In 2024, scientists studying ancient sediments in the eastern United States reported signs of a comet exploding in Earth’s ...

Utah's Great Salt Lake has always been a barometer of environmental change. But new research reveals that over the past 200 ...

The study details how human activities have significantly altered the Great Salt Lake over the past 8,000 years.

The sediments are evidence of massive glacial meltwater floods, called Siku events, that happened during the last Ice Age.

Dec 01, 2022 Scientists Dig into Sediments for Clues on Carbon Storage From San Diego to the Galapagos Islands and beyond, Scripps Oceanography researchers are revealing the mysteries of carbon ...

This happens in all sediments, but is more pronounced in peat. Furthermore, all of the organic matter in peat makes it easy to do Carbon 14 dating on, and thus determine the rate of compaction ...