At the time, the massive Laurentide Ice Sheet ... planet's continental drift. But it could still have a major influence on Iceland over the next several hundred years, especially if glaciers ...

The Atlantic Ocean has been widening for hundreds of millions of years, but its growth may have briefly gone into overdrive thanks to the melting of glaciers ... with ice sheets a mile thick ...

Denman glacier, in East Antarctica, is a 12-mile-wide stream of ice that flows over the deepest undersea canyon in the entire ice sheet before ... it the “deepest continental point on Earth.” ...

Hillenbrand and colleagues studied sediment cores recovered from the Amundsen Sea to reconstruct CDW upwelling onto the ASE continental ... glaciers that drain the West Antarctic Ice Sheet into ...

New analysis of some core samples taken from underneath Greenland’s ice sheet reveal that the island ... Greenland’s continental glacier covers about 80 percent of the 836,3000-square-mile ...

Globally, there are currently more than 200,000 glaciers that do not fall into the category of ice sheets (continental glaciers greater than 50,000 km²). These include glacial valleys ...

The catastrophic collapse of the massive West Antarctic Ice Sheet is underway, researchers said today (May 12). The biggest glaciers in ... least a half-century, and continental West Antarctica ...

Around 10,000 years ago as the last Ice Age ... s continental drift. But it could still have a major influence on Iceland over the next several hundred years, especially if glaciers begin to disappear ...