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Showing posts with label erosion. Show all posts
Showing posts with label erosion. Show all posts
Monday, April 15, 2019

Factors Controlling the Shape of a River Delta

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What is a Delta? A delta is an accumulation of sediments at the mouth of a river that may consist of a network of distributary channel...
Friday, February 3, 2017

The Messinian Salinity Crisis

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You will have heard of The Messinian Salinity Crisis no doubt. From learned articles, geology textbooks, probably lectures at your colle...
Saturday, January 28, 2017

Banded-iron formations (BIFs) - Evidence of Oxygen in Early Atmosphere

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Our knowledge about the rise of oxygen gas in Earth’s atmosphere comes from multiple lines of evidence in the rock record, including the a...
Sunday, January 8, 2017

Siccar Point - the world's most important geological site and the birthplace of modern geology

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Siccar Point   is world-famous as the most important  unconformity  described by  J ames Hutton  (1726-1797) in support of his world-chan...
Tuesday, January 5, 2016

Weathering and Erosional Processes in Deserts

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Weathering and Erosional Processes in Deserts  Without the protection of foliage to catch rainfall and slow the wind, and without roots t...
Sunday, November 8, 2015

Soil

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What is Soil? What is soil? . If you've ever had the chance to dig in a garden, you've seen first hand that the material in which...
Tuesday, September 15, 2015

Stratigraphy: Making sense of chaos

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What is Stratigraphy? Stratigraphy - The branch of geology that seeks to understand the geometric relationships between different rock ...