Areas of sedimentology and stratigraphy that currently motivate the research our faculty and students include: (i) mechanistic understanding of sediment formation, deposition, and lithification ...

Beneath Namibia’s desert, scientists have stumbled upon bizarre ancient tunnels etched deep into solid rock. Their origin ...

Billion Years Ago, a Rift Nearly Split North America in Two and It Left Behind a Mysterious Scar Around a billion years ago, ...

Massive seafloor craters off California are shaped by ancient underwater sediment flows—not methane—revealing a hidden ...

ash and sediment deposited by the fires. Although the news was bad—the level was above the 4 parts per million threshold set by the Environmental Protection Agency—Azimi had provided Byrne ...

A massive boulder named Maka Lahi was recently found about 650 feet from the edge of a cliff in Tonga, and researchers believe that it may have been deposited by a tsunami around 7,000 years ago.

The Trump administration is trying to position direct lithium extraction, deepsea mining and battery materials-focused ...

Riparian vegetation plays an important role in sediment retention, thus reduces sediment yield in watersheds. The Brazilian Forest Law (Law 12,651/2012) requires maintenance of fixed-width buffers of ...

Department of Materials Science and Engineering, University of Arizona, Tucson, Arizona 85721, and Division of Material Science and Technology, Los Alamos National Laboratory, Los Alamos, New Mexico ...