Submarine canyons form in places where the seafloor is steepest, redefining how sediments and carbon travel to the depths of ...

The Science Behind River Downcutting The water pressure of a river can cut deep into a riverbed. Sediments from the riverbed ...

Steep-sided underwater canyons on the continental margin bordering the Pacific Ocean off the US West Coast (State of Washington). These geological features were formed by erosion processes on the ...

In the 19th century, many people believed that landscapes like the Grand Canyon were shaped by volcanoes and earthquakes. But one American geologist named John Newberry had different ideas. National ...

About 3.8 billion years ago, two massive canyons likely formed on the moon in a span of less than 10 minutes, according to new research. The extraordinary formations, each comparable in size to ...

The origin story of Hells Canyon, North America's deepest river gorge, has long been unclear to scientists. But new research estimates it formed about 2.1 million years ago when a dramatic flood event ...

The Earth's Grand Canyon took millions of years to carve, but the moon's grand canyons took about ten minutes. The moon's grand canyons were carved in the blink of an eye The Grand Canyon in Arizona ...

The Grand Canyon in Arizona got carved by water over millions of years of slow but steady erosion. Two similarly-sized canyons on the moon got carved by flying rocks in about 10 minutes. About the ...

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