They say time is an ever-flowing river and these ones take a LOT of time. This week, we’re bundled up and headed far north ...

In an important contribution from the social sciences, Rice University anthropologists Cymene Howe and Dominic Boyer examine ...

This cuts off, or truncates, the end of the ridge. The very steep side of the spur is evidence of this glacial erosion. U-shaped valleys and truncated spurs: the distinctive footprint mapping the ...

The natural disaster shows a volatile combination of climate change effects, fragile natural environments and human ...

Photograph by Earth Gallery Photograph, Alamy The Great Unconformity has in turn often been suggested as being an erosional feature ... mealtime came to an end. Glaciers would have carved out ...

The feedbacks relating glacial motion, glacial drainage, and glacial erosion would result in fundamentally ... providing meltwater during the summer to create the features we see today.

Over time, erosion would have exposed the salt deposits, along with crevasses and moraine bands, which are unique to glaciers. "Glaciers often present distinctive types of features, including ...

Scientists sent a torpedo-shaped robot beneath the Thwaites Glacier in January 2020. The craft discovered crevasses and stair-like fractures in the ice that are speeding up erosion. Results were ...

“It had been hypothesized that widespread glacial erosion of continental interiors could be caused by the Snowball Earth ice,” said Kirkland, a professor in the School of Earth and Planetary ...