Twenty thousand years ago, the land we live on now was under the leading edge of the last glacier of the last Ice Age. It takes effort today to imagine those hundreds of feet of ice over our heads, ...

Glaciologists used sound waves to reveal Ice Age landforms buried beneath almost 1 km of mud in the North Sea. The results suggest that the landforms were produced about 1 million years ago, when an ...

The three parallel lines of Glen Roy mystified geologists and other scientists for many years. Swiss geologist Louis Agassiz travelled to Scotland in 1840 to develop his theories about the work of ice ...

This is a preview. Log in through your library . Abstract This paper attempts to reinterpret the scenery of the Cairngorm mountains; in particular, it suggests that there is little evidence for the ...

An international team of researchers, including a glaciologist at Newcastle University, UK, has discovered remarkably well-preserved glacial landforms buried almost 1 km beneath the North Sea. The ...