Novel technique reveals how glaciers sculpted their valleys
Thursday, March 31, 2011 - 14:30
in Earth & Climate
How do you reconstruct the landscape that a glacier has obliterated? Geologists have developed a new technique to determine the life history of minerals now on the surface but that once were under a kilometer of rock, and thus to reconstruct the landform history of a mountain range. The work can help us understand how glaciers are changing the landscape today.