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Roman DiBiase, associate professor of geosciences at Penn State, stands on a boulder in a river channel in central Taiwan. Credit: Provided by Julia Carr . All Rights Reserved.

How Water Shapes Mountain Ranges Over Time

January 12, 2024

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Enhanced chemical weathering: A solution to the climate crisis?

An MIT study of the freshwater greenfin darter fish suggests river erosion can be a driver of biodiversity in tectonically inactive regions. Credits: Image: Jose-Luis Olivares/MIT with fish photo by Isaac Szabo

River erosion can shape fish evolution

In 2010, two of the study's authors—David Shuster of UC Berkeley (left) and Yosemite Park geologist Greg Stock (right)—collected rock samples from the rim of Yosemite Valley, where the granite has eroded only slowly over the last 50 million years. In the distance is the upper Merced River valley. Former UC Berkeley graduate student Johnny Webb is at center. Credit: Kurt Cuffey, UC Berkeley

How old is California’s Yosemite Valley?

Broad surfaces called terraces preserve ancient river floodplains and landscape history up to hundreds of meters above the Fortymile River, a tributary of the Yukon River, in eastern Alaska. Researchers from the USGS, the University of Vermont, Purdue University and Utah State University publish definitive support that increases in sediment deposited to oceans from river erosion coincide with dramatic changes in glacial cycles. Credit: USGS

Geoscientist Aids Study of Climatic Change Impacts on River Erosion

Chemical weathering could alleviate some climate change effects

August 2, 2017

Weathering of rocks a poor regulator of global temperatures

May 22, 2017

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What is Weathering? What Are Types Of Weathering?

May 19, 2016

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