Blue ice occurs when snow falls on a glacier, is compressed, and becomes part of the glacier. During compression, air bubbles are squeezed out, so ice...

ice age called Quaternary glaciation. Individual pulses of cold climate within an ice age are termed glacial periods (glacials, glaciations, glacial stages...

The Last Glacial Period (LGP), also known colloquially as the Last Ice Age or simply Ice Age, occurred from the end of the Last Interglacial to the end...

much thinner sea ice and lake ice that form on the surface of bodies of water. On Earth, 99% of glacial ice is contained within vast ice sheets (also known...

Blue ice (glacial), created by glaciers Blue-ice area, area in Antarctica where sublimation of ice leads to the development of blue ice Blue Ice (video game)...

entire period up to the present as an "ice age", in popular culture this term usually refers to the most recent glacial period, or to the Pleistocene epoch...

Post-glacial rebound (also called isostatic rebound or crustal rebound) is the rise of land masses after the removal of the huge weight of ice sheets...

term referred only to glacial periods. Over time, this developed into the concept that they were all part of a much longer ice age.[citation needed] The...

concave shape of a glacial cirque is open on the downhill side, while the cupped section is generally steep. Cliff-like slopes, down which ice and glaciated...

overturn. The rare blue ice is formed from the compression of pure snow, which then develops into glacial ice. Icebergs may also appear blue due to light refraction...

water) is water released by the melting of snow or ice, including glacial ice, tabular icebergs and ice shelves over oceans. Meltwater is often found during...

Würmeiszeit or Würmzeit; cf. ice age), usually referred to in the literature as the Würm (often spelled "Wurm"), was the last glacial period in the Alpine region...

frozen precipitation in the accumulation zone exceeds the quantity of glacial ice lost due to melting or in the ablation zone a glacier will advance; if...

arguing it represented one continuous glacial event and others concluding that as many as twenty-five separate ice sheets across Gondwana developed, waxed...

Ice worms (also written as ice-worms or iceworms, or also called glacial or glacier worms) are enchytraeid annelids of the genus Mesenchytraeus. The majority...

A blue-ice area is an ice-covered area of Antarctica where wind-driven snow transport and sublimation result in net mass loss from the ice surface in the...

non-tectonic cryoseisms originating from glacial movements such as ice calving, or through seabed gouging by ice. The sound's source was roughly triangulated...

landmass. Landforms are shaped by glacial erosion through processes such as glacial quarrying, abrasion, and meltwater. Glacial meltwater contributes to the...

1630 for when the worldwide glacial expansion, known as the Grindelwald Fluctuation, began 1650, not the start of the Little Ice Age, but the start of the...

The Riss glaciation, Riss Glaciation, Riss ice age, Riss Ice Age, Riss glacial or Riss Glacial (German: Riß-Kaltzeit, Riß-Glazial, Riß-Komplex or (obsolete)...

its numerous ravines. Never covered by ice during the last ice age, the area lacks the characteristic glacial deposits known as drift. Its landscape is...

Ice Age: The Meltdown (also known as Ice Age 2: The Meltdown) is a 2006 American animated adventure comedy film produced by Blue Sky Studios and distributed...

Laurentide Ice Sheet, a continental ice sheet covering most of northeastern North America during the last glacial period. Other northern hemisphere ice sheets...

Bulletin 4, The GLACIAL LAKES around Michigan; William R. Farrand, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor, Michigan; 1988 The Illinois Ice Lobe; Frank Leverett;...

in central North America in the waning years of the last glacial period. As the Laurentide Ice Sheet decayed at the end of the Wisconsin glaciation, lakes...

Dryas, Younger Dryas, Little Ice Age) Little ice age Post-glacial rebound Timeline of glaciation Canadian Shield Glacial history of Minnesota Lake Agassiz...

(Icelandic pronunciation: [ˈjœːkʏlsˌaurˌlouːn] ; literally "glacial river lagoon") is a large glacial lake in southern part of Vatnajökull National Park, Iceland...

Mindel-Komplex or, colloquially, Mindel-Eiszeit) is the third youngest glacial stage in the Alps. Its name was coined by Albrecht Penck and Eduard Brückner...

During the last deglaciation, numerous glacial lake outburst floods were caused by the collapse of either ice sheets or glaciers that formed the dams...

Dome (1004 m in 1999), with both cores reaching ice from the last glacial period. The West Antarctic Ice Sheet (WAIS) project, completed in 2011, reached...