There are glaciers on every continent except Australia. They are found in the coldest places, in Polar regions and on mountains. Glaciers can form distinct landforms through erosion of the landscape ...

Twenty thousand years ago, the land we live on now was under the leading edge of the last glacier of the last Ice Age. It takes effort today to imagine those hundreds of feet of ice over our heads, ...

A generic term for the range of longitudinal and transverse landforms produced at the base of a glacier or ice sheet as a result of active ice flow across a sediment base. Whilst individual types of ...

During the Mid-Pleistocene Transition (MPT), the Earth adopted a 100,000-year glacial-interglacial cycle compared to the previous 41,000-year cycle. Scientists have now discovered landforms created ...

Aaron E. Putnam is in the School of Earth and Climate Sciences and Climate Change Institute, University of Maine, Orono, Maine 04469, USA. Mountain glaciers are highly sensitive, purely physical ...

As we look at the surface of Northern Ireland we know that there are a number of processes that have helped shape the history of the landscape – from volcanoes, rivers, the weather and the impact of ...