A more recent theory for erosion is outlined in a truly delightful and metacognitive paper by John Shaw, explaining how meltwater and outwash from the glacier could carve under-ice material ...

Image via. It stretched down through New York, too, forming the city we know today, from Long Island—created by moraines and outwash from the glacier—to the archipelago of greater New York ...

The glacier’s leading edge melted down so fast ... carving sinuous “braided rivers” and depositing soils in flat outwash plains, spreading out like an apron. Materials carried by flowing ...

This week's Friday Field Foto is from a trip I took to the Arctic archipelago of Svalbard in June 2009. (Click on the image to see a bigger and less fuzzy version) There are virtually no roads on ...

Outwash plains have long been recognized as an important source for windblown dust owing to two important characteristics. First, the high sediment load delivered by the glacier includes a high ...

which forms at the edge of a glacier at the valley side. Erratics are boulders carried by ice, often for many kilometres, and deposited in areas of completely different rock type. Outwash plains ...