geology McAfee SECURE sites help keep you safe from identity theft, credit card fraud, spyware, spam, viruses and online scams

Geology News
Earth Science Current Events


How Do Rock Glaciers Work?
November 30, 2012 | Colorado Geological Survey on Facebook

Are rock glaciers a mass of moving ice covered with a surface of rocks or are they a mass of rocks with interstitial ice? The collapse of a rock glacier in Colorado reveals the truth – at least for this rock glacier.


  Related Stories

Rock Glacier near Ouray, Colorado
August 21, 2012 | Colorado Geological Survey on Facebook
The Colorado Geological Survey has a great photo of a rock glacier near Ouray, Colorado....

Status: Yosemite’s Lyell Glacier Stagnant
February 5, 2013 | Yosemite National Park
"The Lyell Glacier, the largest glacier in Yosemite National Park, has stagnated, or ceased its...

Glaciers and the Industrial Revolution
March 13, 2012 | Woods Hole Research Center
"New clues as to how the Earth's remote ecosystems have been influenced by the industrial...

Status of Himalayan Glaciers
September 26, 2012 | National Academy of Sciences
"Glaciers in the eastern and central regions of the Himalayas appear to be retreating at...

University Students Make Rock Kits for K-12
December 27, 2012 | Standard-Examiner
Geoscience students at Weber State University made 100 educational rock kits that will be used...

Vanishing Glaciers of Bhutan
November 20, 2012 | Brigham Young University
"Rupper's most conservative findings indicate that even if climate remained steady, almost 10 percent of...

Melting Glaciers and Sea Level Rise
May 19, 2013 | University of Colorado Boulder
"While 99 percent of Earth’s land ice is locked up in the Greenland and Antarctic...

Spying on China’s Glaciers
February 18, 2013 | Scientific American
An article in Scientific American reports that time lapse cameras, placed by a U.S. geologist...


Every day you can find links to several earth science news topics right here. Bookmark this page and visit often. You can also receive our news for free by RSS feed or in a daily email message.





© 2005-2013 Geology.com. All Rights Reserved.
Images, code and content of this website are property of Geology.com. Use without permission is prohibited. Pages on this site are protected by Copyscape.