An international team of researchers published a study in the journal Nature Communications, revealing new insights into life ...

According to a study published in the journal Nature Communications, researchers found an unexpected surge of the radioactive ...

Sharks have ruled the Earth’s oceans for 400 million years and recent research on fossilized shark teeth has led to the discovery of an innovative method for dating ancient sediments.

The scientists used their data to chart where and when plant species emerged or disappeared across Siberia and Alaska.

Traces of organisms detected in sediments from 7.5 kilometers below the ocean surface reveal how organisms living in the deep sea are engineering their own environments. Analyses of sediment cores ...

However, their use has led to significant environmental concerns due to their toxicity to marine life and their persistence in sediments. Recent research has focused on understanding the current ...

Sediments accumulate on lake floors which, at the offshore and undisturbed depths, act as archival records. When a lake develops algal blooms, fishless conditions or masses of weeds, it is ...

Sedimentary rocks close sedimentary rockSedimentary rocks are those which have been formed due to sediments that have built up over a long period of time, usually under water. are formed from ...