News tagged with river sediments
Geologist investigates canyon carved in just three days in Texas flood
In the summer of 2002, a week of heavy rains in Central Texas caused Canyon Lake -- the reservoir of the Canyon Dam -- to flood over its spillway and down the Guadalupe River Valley in a planned diversion ...
Space & Earth / Earth Sciences
Jun 20, 2010 |
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Marine Scientist Finds 'Little Ice Age' Had Dramatic Effect on Gulf
(PhysOrg.com) -- More than 350 years ago, the temperatures in northern Europe dropped dramatically in an event known as the “Little Ice Age.” Now - deep below the waters of the Gulf of Mexico and buried in ...
Space & Earth / Earth Sciences
Feb 22, 2010 |
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The Amazon River is 11 million years old
The Amazon River originated as a transcontinental river around 11 million years ago and took its present shape approximately 2.4 million years ago. These are the most significant results of a study on two ...
Space & Earth / Earth Sciences
Jul 07, 2009 |
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Stone cutting tools link early humans to prehistoric India
Dating of recently discovered artifacts in South India indicates that early humans lived in the region more than a million years ago, and that they used distinct 'Acheulian' stone cutting tools, a new study ...
Other Sciences / Archaeology & Fossils
Mar 25, 2011 |
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Scientists discover Amazon river is 11 million years old
Researchers at the University of Liverpool have discovered that the Amazon river, and its transcontinental drainage, is around 11 million years old and took its present shape about 2.4 million years ago.
Space & Earth / Earth Sciences
Jul 29, 2009 |
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Obama wants to pump $475M into Great Lakes cleanup
(AP) -- A budget proposal from the Obama administration would spend $475 million on beach cleanups, wetlands restoration and removal of toxic sediments from river bottoms around the Great Lakes.
May 15, 2009 |
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Long-Term carbon storage in Ganges basin may portend global warming worsening
(PhysOrg.com) -- Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution (WHOI) scientists have found that carbon is stored in the soils and sediments of the Ganges-Brahmaputra basin for a surprisingly long time, making it likely ...
Space & Earth / Earth Sciences
Nov 09, 2011 |
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Scientists find new solutions for the arsenic-poisoning crisis in Asia
(PhysOrg.com) -- Every day, more than 140 million people in southern Asia drink groundwater contaminated with arsenic. Thousands of people in Bangladesh, Cambodia, India, Myanmar and Vietnam die of cancer each year from chronic ...
Mar 24, 2009 |
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Researchers' chance viewing of river cutoff forming provides rare insight
For University of Illinois river researchers, new insight into river cutoffs was a case of being in the right place at the right time.
Space & Earth / Earth Sciences
Sep 21, 2011 |
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Toxic Coal Ash Threatens Health And Environment
(PhysOrg.com) -- Exposure to dust and river sediment containing toxic metals and radioactivity from a coal ash spill at the Tennessee Valley Authority’s Kingston power plant last December could pose risks ...
Aug 18, 2009 |
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Understanding Missouri River's sediment dynamics key to protecting endangered species
A new report from the National Research Council says that more organized and systematic procedures for gathering and evaluating data on Missouri River sediment are required to improve decisions and better manage the river's ...
Sep 28, 2010 |
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Alfalfa sprouts hold the line on meandering streams (w/ Video)
(PhysOrg.com) -- Sinuous, meandering streams produce diverse and wildlife-rich habitats and are the aim of many river restoration efforts, but until now, the bank, water flow and sediment conditions required ...
Space & Earth / Earth Sciences
Oct 05, 2009 |
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Mississippi mud: More water behind river's sediment rise
(PhysOrg.com) -- During the past several decades, upper Midwest state and local agencies have spent hundreds of millions of dollars on extraordinary conservation efforts to prevent the Upper Mississippi River ...
Sep 29, 2011 |
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Sediment sleuthing: Radioactive medicine being tracked through rivers
A University of Delaware oceanographer has stumbled upon an unusual aid for studying local waterways: radioactive iodine. Trace amounts of the contaminant, which is used in medical treatments, are entering ...
Mar 22, 2012 |
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River delta areas can provide clue to environmental changes
Sediments released by many of the world's largest river deltas to the global oceans have been changed drastically in the last 50 years, largely as a result of human activity, says a Texas A&M University researcher who emphasizes ...
May 11, 2009 |
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