Forces that shape the Earth's surface are recorded in a number of natural records, from tree rings to cave formations. In a recent study, researchers from The University of Texas at Austin show that ...

Profound changes in cross-shelf sediment fluxes are anticipated in coming decades in the southern Canadian Beaufort Sea where an accelerated increase in temperature could lead to large changes in ...

Prediction of shoreline change around inlets at meso-time scales (years to decades) is the next logical step following verification of microscale models. If mesoscale simulations are a goal, a basic ...

The Ganges-Brahmaputra-Meghna (GBM) rivers carry a massive sediment load that feeds the world’s largest depositional system: the GBM megadelta. The mass of sediment transported annually by the GBM ...

Midwater sediment plumes that are discharged through pipes used by mining machinery that descend 1,000 meters or more into the ocean’s aphotic zone become a highly turbulent cloud of suspended ...

Activities such as sand extraction, cable trenching and pipeline construction regularly churn up the top layer of the North Sea bed. And that half-metre is an important habitat for all kinds of ...