This is where a glacier, a massive river of flowing ice, forms. Glaciers form the corrie when more and more snow piles up. The snow gets squashed under its own weight and is compacted into hard ice.

Glaciers form when snow stays in the same area all-year-round, where eventually enough snow will turn it to ice due to the compression - and there's currently around 200,000 of them in the world.

U-shaped glacially carved Veneon Valley in the Western Alps. Disclaimer: AAAS and EurekAlert! are not responsible for the accuracy of news releases posted to EurekAlert! by contributing ...

In an interdisciplinary cooperation project of the EU-projects FACE-IT, ECOTIP, and SEA-Quester, scientists investigated the ...