Strange landforms look like a Martian version of Antarctic ice streams. When you purchase through links on our site, we may earn an affiliate commission. Here’s how it works.

A generic term for the range of longitudinal and transverse landforms produced at the base of a glacier or ice sheet as a result of active ice flow across a sediment base. Whilst individual types of ...

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 ...

During the Mid-Pleistocene Transition (MPT), the Earth adopted a 100,000-year glacial-interglacial cycle compared to the previous 41,000-year cycle. Scientists have now discovered landforms created ...

Mars has long been framed as a cold, dry desert, but new research is revealing a planet laced with hidden ice and glacial scars that reshape how I think about its past. Instead of a simple story of ...

Drumlins are a ubiquitous landform in lands once overrun by glaciers, and yet after two centuries of studying them, we still aren’t certain how these teardrop-shaped hills form. Top image: A drumlin ...