A graphic showing how sediments from under the glacier pile up into buttressing moraines and how the UT Austin-led expedition plans to explore the glacial environment.

Any material carried or moved by a glacier is called moraine. There are three different types of moraine: ...

Thousands of cubic metres of land in Dumfries and Galloway, home to rocky outcrops and glacial moraines, have been churned up ...

An international study has investigated the causes and impacts of the devastating flood disaster in the Himalayas in October ...

About 13,000 years ago the melting glaciers that covered Minnesota and Canada created a vast lake, bigger than all the Great ...

These glacial deposits were of two kinds: Till - mixed or unstratified materials directly deposited by ice. Examples of till deposits include drumlins, moraines and erratics. Fluvio-glacial ...

Scientists at the University of Lausanne have used AI for the first time to massively speed up computer calculations and simulate the last ice cover in the Alps. Much more in line with field ...

Dehradun: A study by researchers from the University of Hamburg and Jawaharlal Nehru University (JNU) has highlighted a ...

According to the study, the collapse of the frozen glacial debris, called a moraine, created a 20-metre tsunami-like wave ...

The GLOF disaster had resulted in 55 casualties, with 70 people still missing and had caused extensive damage to critical ...

Sikkim Glacial Lake Outburst Flood was triggered by the collapse of 14.7 million cubic metres of moraine material in South Lhonak Lake, releasing 50 million cubic metres of water. This disaster ...