Tag: Greenland ice sheet
Research sheds light on origins, age of massive impact crater
New research suggests that the Hiawatha impact crater beneath ice could have been formed during the Pleistocene geological epoch. The 31-kilometer-wide crater first came to the world's attention in 2018 when...
Part of the Greenland ice sheet may be close to a...
The Greenland ice sheet contains the mass equivalent to raising global sea level by 7 meters. Research data revealed that a part of the...
A history of snowfall on Greenland, hidden in ancient leaf waxes
A new study uses aquatic leaf waxes to study the history of precipitation at this lake in western Greenland.
Credit: Jason Briner
The history of Greenland's...
What lies beneath West Antarctica?
This is an artist's conception of the Antarctic subglacial environment.Credit: Zina Deretsky, NSF
Three recent publications by early career researchers at three different institutions across...
