In the late 1700s, while inspecting a coal mine in southwest England, a young surveyor named William Smith noticed a surprising pattern: from one location to the next, rock layers (or "strata") were ...
Deciphering the mechanisms of environmental change from traces of extinction-level celestial impacts
What caused the extinction of the dinosaurs? The first thing that might come to mind is a meteorite crashing into the Earth. Assistant Professor Honami Sato, a geology researcher at the Faculty of ...
This article was published in Scientific American’s former blog network and reflects the views of the author, not necessarily those of Scientific American The Russian scholar Mikhail Vasil´evich ...
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