To delve into those layers, scientists like me collect samples by sediment coring in peat bogs, lakes, saltmarshes and ... Depths of cores vary from a few meters to hundreds of meters.

Understanding the earthquake history of a region is key to estimating seismic hazard. To help with this task, geologists look ...

Heat generated by the friction of rock falling through air melted ice, creating a slurry of rock, debris and sediment that plummeted into Langmale glacial lake below, resulting in a massive flood.

Heat generated by the friction of rock falling through air melted ice, creating a slurry of rock, debris, and sediment that plummeted into Langmale glacial lake below, resulting in a massive flood.

The Jammu and Kashmir government is establishing an early warning system to enhance preparedness for any sudden breach of glacial lakes due to the climate change-induced rapid melting in the Himalayas ...

The extracted sediment core reflects three phases of deposition: 12,500 years ago, a lake became formed in the collapsed cave, into which many organic remains from a surrounding rainforest were ...

At each lake, we collected a sediment core and samples from the upper-most and bottom-most sections of the mud were analyzed. These represented modern (deposited in the last few years) and pre ...

The lake has between five and seven kilometres of sediment that is built up at the ... Lakes usually form as glacial features, but "in the grand scheme, they're very short-lived systems," senior ...

Ohan Breiding's "Belly of a Glacier" combines experimental film and photography to reflect on a moment of loss—and to fight ...

On October 3 at 10:12 PM (local time), an entire section of the glacial moraine on the northern shore of the lake collapsed. This mass of sediment and ice, measuring 2,953 feet (900 m) long and ...

rescued three people from the wreckage of a crashed PA-12 Super Cruiser aircraft partially submerged in glacial ice on a lake about 40 miles southeast of Soldotna March 24. An HH-60M Black Hawk ...