To find out if the Franz Josef Glacier is receding or advancing ... snow gets funneled into the high valleys and forms a pile of permanent snow-ice. The weight of this frozen ice eventually ...

The unsorted till appears moulded by ice to form a blunt ... They mark the furthest point reached by the ice sheet or glacier. Terminal moraines form when the ice melts and deposits all the ...

Glaciers also deposit material to form unique landforms such as drumlins. Glaciated landscapes are a source of economic activity but also of conflict. As the ice moves down the mountain it does so ...

Crevasses are widening faster as meltwater drives fissures deeper into the ice and lubricates the base of glaciers, ...

Beneath the muddy depths of the North Sea, scientists have uncovered an ancient, frozen world shaped by a massive Ice Age ... The glacier’s movements carved and molded the North Sea’s seabed ...

The main image shows ice that has ... metamorphic rock forms a backdrop to an iceberg reflected in the deep fjord’s waters. In Switzerland’s Vadret da Morteratsch glacier (pictured above ...