Deep beneath the Atlantic Ocean, off the coast of Guinea-Bissau in West Africa, scientists have uncovered enormous fossilized ...

Scientists Discover 117-Million-Year-Old Underwater Sediment Waves, Show How the Atlantic Ocean Formed The Atlantic Ocean today is a super hose of global weather, biodiversity, and commerce. However, ...

According to geologists at the UK’s Heriot Watt University, gigantic waves of mud and sand sediment about 250 miles off the ...

Heriot-Watt scientists have discovered giant underwater mud waves buried deep below the Atlantic Ocean, 400 kilometers off ...

Made of mud and sand, these massive underwater sediment waves lie around 3,280 feet below the seabed, researchers reported in a new study. They were formed in the "Equatorial Atlantic Gateway ...

The study concludes that the amber was originally formed as resin in coastal forests. During massive tsunami events, entire ...

Big waves from hurricanes like Irene in 2011 or Superstorm Sandy last October or even nor’easters like one that ...

Waves, tide, and wind dominate coastal processes and landforms. Rivers deliver sediment to the coast, where it can be reworked to form deltas, beaches, dunes, and barrier islands. The coastal zone ...

Sediment builds on a steep slope on the northern ... Southern shores could witness 40m-high waves The submarine landslides all occurred in the same location - on steeply inclined terrain on ...

Of these events, 64% were correlated with algal biomass, with the remaining 18%, 5%, and 4% being attributed to sediment resuspension by surface waves, storm-generated currents and enhanced nearbed ...

The Atlantic Ocean was formed by the dramatic break-up of the supercontinent Pangea, splintering our planet into drifting landmasses that would become the continents we know today. Now, the ...