Our ability to assess how glacial erosion shapes mountain ranges and reflects climate or tectonic variability is limited by a dearth of information about what controls the rate of glacial erosion ...

Blacksburg, Va. -- Intense glacial erosion has not only carved the surface of the highest coastal mountain range on earth, the spectacular St. Elias range in Alaska, but has elicited a structural ...

U-M assistant professor of geological sciences Todd Ehlers has been working in a remote region of the Coast Mountains for the past three years, studying rates of glacial erosion and topographic ...

U-M assistant professor of geological sciences Todd Ehlers has been working in a remote region of the Coast Mountains for the past three years, studying rates of glacial erosion and topographic ...

Instead of wearing mountains down, evidence from Europe's high Alps shows that glaciers shield summits from erosion, acting as a protective lid. French scientists studied erosion on Mont Blanc ...

The findings, reported in the journal Science, have significant implications for glacial erosion as Earth gets warmer due to climate change. "The glaciers will accelerate and the rate of glacial ...

Glaciologist Olivier Gagliardini says that while it is too early to know whether climate change was behind this avalanche, ...

“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 ...

Erosion transports the fragments away ... Back up on the mountains, snow and ice build up into glaciers that weigh on the rocks beneath and slowly push them downhill under the force of gravity.