Deep-sea sediment cores are vital to our understanding of the past and present oceans. They record the geological history of the ocean basins, providing evidence for changing climates, emerging ...

They wanted to explore how volcanoes impact the sea ... samples by plunging into the seafloor. The layers of sediment collected in the core samples preserve evidence of the area’s past ...

A gigantic volcanic eruption some time around the year 2900 BCE may have darkened the sun, leading to freezing temperatures, ...

Our two labs help process and analyze sediment samples and sediment cores collected from terrestrial, lake, and marine environments. We perform chemical and physical analyses on sediments and other ...

She said ash from the eruption rained down on several nearby towns and cities around the volcano and warned heavy rain could dislodge the fresh volcanic sediment from the latest eruption ...

Thousands of years ago, people on what is now the Danish island of Bornholm threw hundreds of mysteriously carved stones into ...

A newly discovered half-million-year-old layer of volcanic sediment beneath the Aegean Sea ... of the magma and rock beneath this active volcano, most of which is underwater.

Royal Navy personnel are helping scientists warn of potentially catastrophic tsunamis by researching huge underwater volcanoes on the ... huge amounts of sediment shifting which could set off ...