A new model that explains how canyons are formed from floods and other water discharges has discounted an erstwhile brim model, which harped on gushing water discharge in huge volumes having caused ...

Submarine canyons form in places where the seafloor is steepest, redefining how sediments and carbon travel to the depths of ...

A research team outlines how it identified and bestowed a moniker upon a previously unexplored 500 million-year-old Grand Canyon formation: The Frenchman Mountain Dolostone. The newly named rock layer ...

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What scientific question(s) does your research address and what motivates this work? River canyons are among the most remarkable landforms found on earth. The formation of canyons has significant ...

Journal of Applied Meteorology (1988-2005), Vol. 43, No. 12 (December 2004), pp. 1899-1910 (12 pages) ABSTRACT A single-layer urban canopy model is incorporated into a simple two-dimensional ...

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Anyone who enjoys whitewater rafting in places like the Colorado River owes a debt of gratitude to the enormous boulders that create the foaming undulation known as rapids, and new research appears to ...

Moderately well-preserved radiolarians are described from two measured sections of the Reef Trail Member of the Bell Canyon Formation (Middle Permian), exposed in the Patterson Hills, Guadalupe ...