Locate construction materials such as sand and gravel. Identify groundwater aquifers. Provide data about subsurface stability and risks. Evaluate sites for waste disposal facilities. Locate natural ...

The Department of Geology is about much more than rocks and minerals. Its faculty and students perform cutting-edge research on everything from how glaciers react to climate change to how molten lava ...

Thanks to climate change, thawing permafrost in the Canadian Arctic has revealed the buried remnant of a glacier that’s 770,000 years old.

If Northwestern students want further evidence of climate change, they have to look no further than Northwestern’s very own glacier. The late Northwestern professor and geology chair Ulysses S. Grant ...

a glaciologist at the Wadia Institute of Himalayan Geology, emphasized the importance of dry snow during December and January for the health of the Himalayan glaciers. He said, “Dry snow is more ...

Also, various scientific instruments will be installed which can tell what changes are taking place in the glacier lakes,” he said. Former scientist from Wadia Institute of Himalayan Geology ...

The beautiful Portage Glacier, near Anchorage is one of the main tourist attractions in Alaska. It is visited by a half million people every year. Crossen is the chair of the Geology Department at ...