Two river systems that drained into the partially desiccated Late Miocene Mediterranean later coalesced into the modern Euphrates River as regional uplift redirected drainage to the Persian Gulf, acco...

In a new paper published today in Nature Geosciences, an international team of researchers, including Claudia Bertoni and Richard Walker, investigated the role these waterways had in delivering freshwater to the Mediterranean during the “Messinian Salinity Crisis”, and how tectonic activity redirected their course towards the Persian Gulf.

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A new study has predicted an increase in landslide hazards in High Mountain Asia. The study authors linked higher emissions of greenhouse gases to the potential for higher risks from landslides.

Two paleoseismic trenches near Goychay and Agsu, Azerbaijan provide evidence of at least three surface rupturing events Events occurred 334–118 BC, AD 1713–1895, and AD 1872–2003. The latter two ...

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