Analysis of core samples extracted from beneath an ice sheet indicates that the region is extremely responsive to the temperatures characteristic of today’s interglacial period. Researchers involved ...

Elizabeth Thomas, UB assistant professor of geology, holds a sediment core -- a cylindrical sample of lakebed mud. Such samples contain organic matter that can be analyzed to learn about a region's ...

In 2012, an 85-year-old scientist and his son-in-law pulled a cylinder of muck from a faraway island. They carried it home like a newborn baby, froze it, and mailed it to a researcher across the ...

Published today (Jan. 5) in Nature Geoscience, the findings suggest that this high point on the northwest section of the ice ...

Lacustrine turbidites offer a reliable record of seismic activity. A typical sedimentary sequence is produced when a turbidity current moves downslope. If the current generates enough energy, this ...

Researchers have discovered microplastics buried in seabed sediments deep below the ocean surface that are more than 150 years old. The team identified the tiny plastic pieces in core samples ...