Meltwater swept enormous volumes of sediment just freed from the melting ice into every low place it reached. The glacial lakes got their fair share. All glacial lakes, ancient and modern ...

X-radiograph of glacial marine sediments in West Greenland sediment core JR175-VC24, showing ice-rafted detritus (IRD). This facility helps process and analyze sediment cores collected from ...

Sediment cores drawn from four lakes in Guatemala record the distinct direction that ground shaking traveled during a 1976 ...

the researchers drilled sediment core samples from the bottom of three lakes: Seksu, Pinku, and Usmas. Lake Pinku and Usmas are located in glacier depressions, while Seksu is part of the capital ...

The new study was based on data from a sediment core extracted from the bottom of Sikuiui Lake in western Greenland. Disclaimer: AAAS and EurekAlert! are not responsible for the accuracy of news ...

Understanding the earthquake history of a region is key to estimating seismic hazard. To help with this task, geologists look ...

On October 3 at 10:12 PM (local time), an entire section of the glacial moraine on the northern shore of the lake collapsed. This mass of sediment and ice, measuring 2,953 feet (900 m) long and 289 ...

The McMurdo Dry Valleys (MDV), home to the southernmost freshwater ecosystem in the world, displays complex hydrological interactions between local glaciers, snowbanks, meltwater streams and ...