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When an earthquake causes a landslide, debris flow, or erosion, it can change the makeup of nearby lakes by introducing larger sediment particles, causing faster sediment buildup, and affecting carbon ...

INCLINE VILLAGE — A new draft federal study of Lake Tahoe Basin watersheds and streams offers a glimmer of hope for a lake under siege from sediment and algae. With the use of computer models, the ...

KALAMAZOO, MI — The total shocked Stephen Hamilton. Hamilton, an aquatic ecology professor at Michigan State University, had seen the Kalamazoo River sediment deposits that developed after a ...

Getting your Trinity Audio player ready... When the San Juan River flows out of the San Juan Mountains in Southwestern Colorado, it contributes 15% of Lake Powell’s water. But there’s a problem: The ...

These are lake sediments in the Newark Rift Basin in a quarry Pennsylvania showing lake level cycles of the type used in the Geological Orrery. Disclaimer: AAAS and EurekAlert! are not responsible for ...

(Reuters) -Sediment deposited at Crawford Lake, a small but deep body of water in Canada's Ontario province, provides unmistakable evidence that Earth entered a new human-driven geological chapter - ...

Scientists from the Institute of Geology and Petroleum Technologies and their overseas colleagues have studied the bottom sediments of Lake Shira in Khakassia, Russia, and found out how climatic and ...

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