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...