Deep dive into the amber deposits on Hokkaido Island in Japan, which may serve as a record of ancient tsunamis.

The researchers suggested the amber had likely been swept into the ocean by one or more tsunamis, with little contact with ...

According to geologists at the UK’s Heriot Watt University, gigantic waves of mud and sand sediment about 250 miles off the ...

This groundbreaking research, published in Scientific Reports, suggests that massive waves carried amber, the fossilized ...

Amber deposits found in ancient deep-sea sediment may represent one of the oldest records to date of a tsunami, suggests ...

When mollusks and other carbon-rich organisms die, their shells and body parts can accumulate in ocean sediments, forming carbonate-rich deposits. Locked away Seagrasses also trap carbon in ...

Companies and some countries have long pushed to mine the potentially lucrative deep-sea deposits. The order would ... Scientists warn that mining the deep ocean, the planet’s least known ...

A team led by the Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution (WHOI), presents new details of an oceanic transform fault at the Gofar fault in the eastern Pacific Ocean. The NSF funded work reveals ...