material ranging in size from room-sized boulders to extremely fine ‘rock flour’. Moraine gets deposited on the sides and at ...

Glaciers that are within three miles of a volcano move nearly 50% quicker than average, a new study has found, which could ...

We have an extremely incomplete picture of what these snowball periods looked like, and Antarctic terrain provides different ...

Glacier recession from its Little Ice Age moraine, western Greenland. This material relates to a paper that appeared in the Dec. 4, 2015, issue of Science, published by AAAS. The paper, by N.E ...

The paper, by N.E. Young at Lamont-Doherty Earth Observatory of Columbia University in Palisades, NY, and colleagues was titled, 'Glacier maxima in Baffin Bay during the Medieval Warm Period ...

All glacial lakes, ancient and modern, deposit distinctive sediments unlike those laid down in any other setting. Moving glaciers grind together the rocks frozen within them, pulverizing them into ...

Around 10,000 years ago when the last ice age was ending and the ice melted, glacial deposits were left behind. When ice is melting, materials like sand, stones and rocks that have been carried ...

A glacier is a slowly flowing river of ice, accumulating snow, rock, sediment and often liquid water. Five scientists flew over the glacier in a helicopter, took pictures, looked at satellite ...

Fine glacier powder, or rock flour, could be an effective tool because of its essentially unlimited quantity and the fact that it can also be used to improve agricultural crop yields. Glacier dust ...

By Aislinn Sarnacki, Bangor Daily News Staff Deep in the forest near my house, massive boulders lie scattered along a hill, ...