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News and Articles on Depressions
10 places to check out (before you check out) Oct 27, 2007
For 700 years, until a long period of drought in the late 1200s drove them away from the southwest corner of what is now Colorado, Ancestral Puebloans farmed these mesa tops and built elaborate stone communities in cliff-face, apse-shaped depressions. There are about 600 cliff dwellings, many multi-storey and amazingly intricate, in the park, which is also a UNESCO World Heritage Site. (Globe and Mail)
Polar water 'would blanket Mars' Mar 17, 2007
Researchers traced the base of the south polar layered deposits and found a set of buried depressions within 300 km of the pole that may be ancient impact craters. "We didn't really know where the bottom of the deposit was," Dr Plaut, from the US space agency's (Nasa) Jet Propulsion Laboratory in California, explained. (BBC News -- Science)
AGU journal highlights -- Nov. 27, 2006 Nov 28, 2006
The authors note that field evidence for this destabilization can be seen in other scientists' accounts of widespread large chaotic deposits of sediments in the Ionain and Sirte Abyssal Plains and tsunami-related deposits called homogenite on local depressions of the Ionian seafloor. They also speculate that this tsunami may have led to the abandonment of a Neolithic village in Israel. (EurekAlert!)
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