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2 weeks ago

Observing the tidal pulse of rivers from wide-swath satellite altimetry - Nature

Along coastlines, where tides are typically magnified, they profoundly affect navigation, commerce, coastal flooding, water properties and sediment transport. Tides impact the flooding of rivers and, thus, influence the extent of their floodplain, which has cascading effects on biogeochemical and ecological processes.
Environment
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fromMail Online
4 weeks ago

Sea fossils atop world's mountains fuel claims of Noah's Great Flood

Marine fossils discovered atop mountains worldwide result from tectonic plate movement lifting ancient seabeds, not a global biblical flood.
fromHigh Country News
2 months ago

How geology not only shapes the world, it shapes us - High Country News

My father was a petroleum geologist. A lot of my childhood, he was gone, away on oil rigs in the Powder River Basin and remote parts of Wyoming, living in man camps long before cellphones. We had to wait days to talk to him. When he went into the nearest town to shower, he'd find a payphone and call us. I was always breathless with news.
Science
fromwww.kaltblut-magazine.com
2 months ago

Terrain

The body is a shifting landscape transformed by surfaces and sensations. Each look captures a different tactile world: the heat of blood, the cool weight of metal, the yielding drift of water. The result is a sculptural study of how the elements carve, shield, and release the self. The materials we embody become the emotions we carry, and the body becomes a materialised exhibition of our emotions, from the pulse of Blood to the discipline of Metal to the surrender of Water.
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Artificial intelligence
fromEric Jang
2 months ago

As Rocks May Think

Modern coding agents can autonomously write, modify, and run experiments, transforming research workflows and enabling unconstrained code-space exploration, automated hypothesis generation, and hyperparameter optimization.
#deep-time
Environment
fromNature
1 month ago

Tree rings and salt lakes give clues about ancient rainfall

Replace hazardous pesticides and apply diverse paleoclimate measurement methods to reconstruct past climate changes.
#urban-geology
fromNature
2 months ago

Volcanic personality: the man who recognized volcanoes as a planet-shaping force of nature

Remembering the life and work of the geologist George Poulett Scrope, and salmon stories in this week's pick from the Nature archive.
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