Weathering Landforms: What Is A Tafoni?
An interesting landform, tafonis are small cave-like features in granular rock with rounded entrances and smooth walls. What Are Tafoni?...
Natural Hazards of 2014
POSTED ON JANUARY 7, 2015 AT 10:02 AM BY: JESSICA ROBERTSON (JROBERTSON@USGS.GOV) ON USGS Going into the New Year, the USGS reflects on...
Liquid water was flowing on Mars 200,000 years ago
LONDON: A very young crater on Mars has shown evidence that liquid water existed on the red planet as recently as 200,000 years ago,...
Reforming landscape
A relatively new project is already taking place in China concerning the creation of new land for urban development by cutting off...
Karachay lake – The forbidden beauty
Karachay lake is a small lake in the southern Ural mountains in western Russia. Even though it is said to be one of the most beautiful...
Fulgurites - the beauty of geomorphology
Fulgurites (from the Latin fulgur, meaning "thunderbolt") are a variety of the mineraloid lechatelierite. Sometimes referred to as...
Washington landslide death toll rises to 14
Authorities in the US state of Washington have found six more bodies after Saturday's huge landslide, bringing the number known to have...
Glacier lakes: Growing danger zones in the Himalayas
It's strangely calming to watch the Imja glacier lake grow, as chunks of ice part from black cliffs and fall into the grey-green lake...
Happy Mass Wasting Week
Happy Mass Wasting Week, where we celebrate landslides, rockfalls, soil creep and everything that goes down…Natural Resources of Canada...
