Some people compare it to being on the moon or Mars, likely because of the look of the surrounding rocks and glacial silt. The air is as fresh as you might expect from a mountain range ...

Minerals swept up on land by this “glacial broom” altered marine chemistry and infused oceans with nutrients that they say may have shaped how complex life evolved. This ancient period of deep ...

“Our isotopic analysis showed that this methane is geologic in origin and is released as the glacier retreats and glacial meltwater flushes through fractures in the rock.” Interestingly, the source of ...

Aerial photograph showing flooding in the Traverse Gap, the former southern outlet of Glacial Lake Agassiz and the source of River Warren. Ice-covered Lake Traverse (Mde Hdakiŋyaŋ), a natural ...

Longitudinal ridging, which is clinically known as onychorrhexis, occurs on the nails and may appear as vertical striations or lines that originate from the base of the fingernail and continue to ...

A more insightful view of iron in glacial systems requires consideration of iron speciation and mineralogy, the potential for iron minerals to undergo weathering in ice-water environments, the impact ...