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NSF-funded researches are figuring out the ancient tectonic events that form the subglacial Gamburtsev Mountains hidden beneath the Antarctic ice cover.
Tags: ads-by-google, california, earthquakes, geology-news, Geology.com, geophysics, glaciers, interior, massachusetts, mexico, middle-east, mountains, virginia“Boulders deposited by an ancient glacier that once covered the summit of Mauna Kea on the island of Hawaii have provided more evidence of the extraordinary power and reach of global change.”
Tags: ads-by-google, california, climate-change, earth sciences, glaciers, mexico, pennsylvania, waterIn many parts of Europe communities depend upon glacial meltwater to supply their summer water needs. With most glaciers in rapid retreat these necessary water supplies are threatened.
Tags: ads-by-google, colorado, earthquakes, glaciers, Jobs, marcellus-shale, satellite images, water, water-supplies“Scientists from the U.S., U.K. and Australia have used ice-penetrating radar to create the first high-resolution topographic map of [..] some of the largest fjords or ice cut channels on Earth, providing important insights into the history of ice in Antarctica .” Quoted from The University of Texas at Austin press release.
Tags: antarctica, climate-change, earthquakes, Geology.com, glaciers, Jobs, maps, marcellus-shale, massachusetts, mexico, mountains, pennsylvania, south, texasThe National Science Foundation has an interesting collection of photographs of icebergs in Antarctic waters.
Tags: astronomy, earthquakes, geology-news, Geology.com, glaciers, indonesia, marcellus-shale, mexico, pennsylvania, photo-gallery, satellite images, south, virginia, water“Scientists working in the remotest part of Antarctica have discovered that liquid water locked deep under the continent’s coat of ice regularly thaws and refreezes to the bottom, creating as much as half the thickness of the ice in places, and actively modifying its structure.” Quoted from the Lamont-Doherty press release.
Tags: ads-by-google, california, climate-change, earthquakes, glaciers, Jobs, university, virginia, washington“Scientists have reconstructed the formation of two curious features in the northern ice cap of Mars—a chasm larger than the Grand Canyon and a series of spiral troughs—solving a pair of mysteries dating back four decades while finding new evidence of climate change on Mars.” Quoted from the University of Texas at Austin press release.
Tags: climate-change, Geology.com, glaciers, marcellus-shale, mars, michigan, pennsylvania, united-states“An Oregon State University research program has returned to Collier Glacier for the first time in almost 20 years and found that the glacier has decreased more than 20 percent from its size in the late 1980s. ” Quoted from the Oregon State University press release.
Tags: ads-by-google, climate, geology-news, glaciers, Jobs, massachusetts, mexico, university, virginia“A new study has found geochemical clues near the summit of Mauna Kea that tell a story of ancient glacier formation, the influence of the most recent ice age, more frequent major storms in Hawaii, and the impact of a distant climatic event that changed much of the world.”
Tags: canada, climate, climate-change, europe, florida, geology-news, Geology.com, geophysics, glaciers, hawaii, michigan, pennsylvania, virginia“Antarctica’s ice generally flows from the middle of the continent toward the edge, dipping toward the sea before lifting back up and floating. The point where ice separates from land is called the “grounding line.” For scientists, an accurate map of the grounding line is a first step toward a complete calculation of how much
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