Falling glacier chunk strands two people on frozen Alaska lake, officials say
Ice climbers came to the rescue of two people who became stranded when a piece of glacier broke off and crashed onto a lake in Alaska, officials said. No one was hurt in the incident, which happened ...
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Glacial Rock in Greenland Offers Clues to Norse Migration Patterns (7 of 11) (IMAGE)
The paper, by N.E. Young at Lamont-Doherty Earth Observatory of Columbia University in Palisades, NY, and colleagues was titled, 'Glacier maxima in Baffin Bay during the Medieval Warm Period ...
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New Study Suggests ‘Missing Billion Years’ In Rock Record Carved Away By ‘Snowball Earth’ Glaciers
Opinions expressed by Forbes Contributors are their own. David Bressan is a geologist who covers curiosities about Earth. Research has shown the complex history behind this gap of missing time ...
Eyewitness describes moments before glacier calving event that left two stranded
A nail-biting video from Portage Lake early Monday evening shows the moment the Portage Lake Glacier calved leaving two people stranded.
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Antarctica’s 'doomsday' glacier is heading for catastrophic collapse
A six-year investigation into the vast Thwaites glacier in Antarctica has concluded with a grim outlook on its future. Often ...
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Glacial processes
As glacial ice moves very slowly downhill, pieces of rock and gravel get stuck between the ice and the land, forming a coarse surface, similar to the sand on sandpaper. These rocks grind together ...
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Falling glacier chunk strands two people on frozen Alaska lake, officials say
A video she shared with the outlet shows the moment the chunk of glacier fell in a thunderous crash. The two people jumped on rocks after the glacier broke away, the woman, Lauren Jobe ...