Officials with Rocky Mountain National Park are warning park goers to use caution with flowing water this summer. On Friday, ...

The southern coast of Spain often conjures an image of sunny and sparkling resort towns, but the reality is that many are ...

Dust rising from the dry bottom of Owens Lake is a longstanding problem. Now, scientists have found that lands surrounding ...

The details are included in a flurry of last-minute filings from attorneys representing the Stillwater Conservation District ...

He collected samples from alluvial fans in the McMurdo Dry Valleys to determine when the glaciers melted. “It’s an important thing to study in the Dry Valleys because it’s an environment with little ...

This extreme architecture enhances fire: deep, narrow clefts transport flames like chimneys. And those broad alluvial fans are expert at what geologists call entrainment — water, mud, sediment and ...

Fast forward to modern day and this is where Fort Berens Estate Winery has its vineyards. Besides being a heck of a geological formation, these alluvial fans are integral to the Lillooet and Fort ...

The alluvial fan is a fan-shaped or tongue-shaped sedimentary body formed at the mountain pass after the river flows out of the valley. Previously, alluvial fans were described as cone-shaped deposits ...

Linking alluvial fan morphology and sedimentology with formation processes via martian analog studies in the Atacama Desert, Chile. National Aeronautics and Space Administration Solar System Workings ...

The sedimentary rock that eroded from the early Rocky Mountains was deposited in large alluvial fans, and that layer of rock is now called the Fountain Formation. “Forty million years after they ...