Is nuclear waste safe underground?
Researchers calculated that nuclear waste could be safely sealed away for more than 350 million years in geological repositories deep…
Category: Trinity Geology
Undergraduates at Trinity University summarize the latest research in Earth sciences!
Bedrock fractures shape waterfalls
Scientists replicated river systems in a laboratory and found that erosion around waterfalls varies based on pre-existing fractures in the…
Why is Earth’s crust layered?
Researchers found that the enrichment of radiogenic elements in the upper continental crust requires high-temperature metamorphism to melt…
Is modern farming sustainable?
Scientists studied sediments from the Mississippi River catchment to determine whether modern agriculture caused more landscape erosion than…
Are horseshoe crabs truly “living fossils”?
Scientists discovered a 445-million-year-old horseshoe crab fossil showing that these animals have maintained the same reproductive system…
What colors were prehistoric mammals?
Paleontologists used fossilized pigment cells to reconstruct the fur colors of Mesozoic mammals, shedding light on their nocturnal…
Industrial waste solidified a UK beach in just 35 years
Scientists analyzed the composition of mineral cements on a beach in Derwent Howe and found that furnace waste had rapidly solidified the…
How do ice sheets melt?
Scientists observed a glacier collapse in Greenland and proposed a new model of how ice sheets melt. Their model describes water as both…
Were dinosaurs doomed before the asteroid hit?
Scientists analyzed a rock layer in New Mexico dating to the end of the dinosaur era and found that dinosaurs in the south remained diverse…
The history of tsunami-causing earthquakes in Japan
Researchers pieced together clues from seismic data and sediment samples to unravel the history of tsunami-causing earthquakes in the Japan…