News tagged with geomorphology

Erosion of the Yucca Mountain crest

The Yucca Mountain crest in Nevada, USA has been proposed as a permanent site for high level radioactive waste. But a new study, already published as an article in press by Elsevier's journal Geomorphology and recently includ ...

Space & Earth / Earth Sciences

May 05, 2009 | 3.7 / 5 (7) | 1

World's oldest submerged town dates back 5,000 years (w/ Video)

Archaeologists surveying the world's oldest submerged town have found ceramics dating back to the Final Neolithic. Their discovery suggests that Pavlopetri, off the southern Laconia coast of Greece, was occupied some 5,000 ...

Other Sciences / Archaeology & Fossils

Oct 16, 2009 | 4.6 / 5 (5) | 0