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Glaciology
Glaciology: A glacier is an extended mass of ice formed from snow falling and accumulating over a long period of time; glaciers move very slowly, either descending from high mountains, as in valley glaciers, or moving outward from centers of accumulation, as in continental glaciers. Glaciology is the study of snow and ice and their physical properties. More specifically, glaciologists analyze the formation, movement, and effects of the different kinds of glaciers, for example alpine and arctic glaciers, ice caps, ice sheets, and ice shelves. Areas of study within glaciology include glacial history and the reconstruction of past glaciation.
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AUG 08, 2025Earth & The Environment
What processes are responsible for the rate of glacier erosion across the world, and could it be more than one process? ...Written By: Laurence Tognetti, MScJUL 31, 2025Earth & The Environment
How can a recent subsurface flood in Greenland be influenced by climate change? This is what a recent study published in ...Written By: Laurence Tognetti, MScJUL 08, 2025Earth & The Environment
How can climate change influence volcanic activity? This is what a recent study presented at the Goldschmidt Conference ...Written By: Laurence Tognetti, MScJUL 01, 2025Earth & The Environment
What new methods can be used to help predict glacier melt patterns as climate change continues to ravage the planet? Thi ...Written By: Laurence Tognetti, MScAPR 08, 2025Earth & The Environment
There are many unknowns when it comes to climate change, like what might happen to the ice in Antarctica. Vast and remot ...Written By: Carmen Leitch
AUG 08, 2025
Earth & The Environment
What processes are responsible for the rate of glacier erosion across the world, and could it be more than one process?
...
Written By:
Laurence Tognetti, MSc
JUL 31, 2025
Earth & The Environment
How can a recent subsurface flood in Greenland be influenced by climate change? This is what a recent study published in
...
Written By:
Laurence Tognetti, MSc
JUL 08, 2025
Earth & The Environment
How can climate change influence volcanic activity? This is what a recent study presented at the Goldschmidt Conference
...
Written By:
Laurence Tognetti, MSc
JUL 01, 2025
Earth & The Environment
What new methods can be used to help predict glacier melt patterns as climate change continues to ravage the planet? Thi
...
Written By:
Laurence Tognetti, MSc
APR 08, 2025
Earth & The Environment
There are many unknowns when it comes to climate change, like what might happen to the ice in Antarctica. Vast and remot
...
Written By:
Carmen Leitch
MAR 28, 2025
Earth & The Environment
A recent study reported in Nature Communications highlighted the loss of glaciers in the Arctic, which has been shown to
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Written By:
Carmen Leitch
MAR 18, 2025
Earth & The Environment
Scientists have completed the third and most detailed map of the land under the frozen ice sheet of Antarctica.
Written By:
Carmen Leitch
MAR 03, 2025
Earth & The Environment
Earth has experienced several climate cycles throughout its long history, including several ice ages that caused the pla
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Written By:
Laurence Tognetti, MSc
FEB 21, 2025
Earth & The Environment
Most people probably think of glaciers as massive blocks of white ice. But many glaciers have dark patches because of th
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Written By:
Carmen Leitch