Plucking – sometimes rocks get frozen to the base, sides and back wall of the glacier. The movement of the glacier pulls these frozen rocks away. Abrasion – rocks trapped in the glacier rub ...
Glaciers are nature’s frozen sentinels, vast rivers of ice and snow that carve the Earth, silently bearing witness to the passage of time and the shifting rhythms of our planet. They are ...
To better understand the melting (ablation) of the Glacier, MTRI designed and fabricated a device to record glacier melt and movement. The instrument, deployed on the ice, recorded temperature, ...