Researchers have investigated erosion in the different kinds of limestone in the Western Wall at the foot of Jerusalem's Temple Mount. Stones made up of large crystals were almost unchanged in 2000 ...

SEVERAL distinct forms of weathering are met with in the Sunderland Magnesian Limestone, two of which I will describe, leaving two others for another occasion. In one of them the prevailing rod, or ...

Sandbars swirl beneath Oregon Inlet in Cape Hatteras National Seashore on North Carolina's Outer Banks. Waves driven by ocean winds can cause the sandbars here to shift and change literally by the ...

Visitors to the Western Wall in Jerusalem can see that some of its stones are extremely eroded. This is good news for people placing prayer notes in the wall's cracks and crevices, but presents a ...

The film explores the processes of weathering and sedimentation that shape the Earth's surface. It explains how rocks break down into mud and sand through natural elements, which are then carried ...

Mysterious micro-burrows in desert marble and limestone were probably made by microbes that lived millions of years ago. Exactly what kind of microbes bored into the rock remains unknown, as does ...