Perched over a large depression in the ground, Sherman Clebnik explains the land formation in less than geological terms. “This is a nice, digestable whole-thing-right-in-front-of-you kettle hole,” he ...

Ice-shelf channels are long curvilinear tracts of thin ice found on Antarctic ice shelves. Many of them originate near the grounding line, but their formation mechanisms remain poorly understood. Here ...

Dreaming, dawdling at Dahlen esker On a recent journey into the Plains area near Dahlen, N.D., I was introduced to the "Dahlen esker." It's a glacial hill that must be at least 100 feet high, a few ...

Their track often bears no relationship to the contours of the land they cross and, in their natural state, they carry a distinctive vegetation type known as esker woodland. The word esker is one of ...

The geological formations that surround Gangler's North Seal River Lodge in northwestern Manitoba are intriguing pathways to the past There’s no shortage of signs of foot traffic here on the “Central ...

When the snow and ice at the surface of an ice sheet melt, during the warm season, the water finds its way down to the base of the ice — because ice is less dense than liquid water — and then flows to ...

Perched over a large depression in the ground, Sherman Clebnik explains the land formation in less than geological terms. “This is a nice, digestable whole-thing-right-in-front-of-you kettle hole,” he ...

Meltwater from the ice sheet that once covered Canada has left behind clues that could help scientists predict the future of Greenland's vanishing ice An amazing landscape left behind by melting ice ...