During the Mid-Pleistocene Transition (MPT), the Earth adopted a 100,000-year glacial-interglacial cycle compared to the previous 41,000-year cycle. Scientists have now discovered landforms created ...

This is the Martian 'spider' landform, whose formation mechanism has long puzzled the scientific community, but now ...

The weatheron Mars was much balmier in the recent past than scientists have previouslythought, according to a new interpretation of the formation of certainlandforms on the surface. The findingcould ...

Great escarpments can be found in southern Africa, India, Brazil and Australia The mystery of how some of the Earth's most dramatic landforms came into being has been solved, scientists believe.

Glaciologists used sound waves to reveal Ice Age landforms buried beneath almost 1 km of mud in the North Sea. The results suggest that the landforms were produced about 1 million years ago, when an ...

Space to play or pause, M to mute, left and right arrows to seek, up and down arrows for volume. Hi, I'm Shona. I'm the Education and Outreach Manager at Geoscience Australia. Geoscience Science ...

Granular sediment may behave as a strong, rock-like material owing to the following mechanisms that stabilize sediment fabric 21: capillary cohesion from interfacial tension caused by partial water ...

New images from the North Sea show never-before-seen landforms that were carved by a single, colossal ice sheet 1 million years ago and subsequently buried beneath a thick layer of mud. When you ...

Landforms in Skåne have been analysed on the basis of two computer-made relief maps in 1:250 000. The relief is represented by hill shading. These maps give both an overview and a detailed view of the ...