An icefall is created when a glacier begins to move downhill on a steep slope. Icefalls are literally hanging glaciers, falling slowly over geological time by the force of gravity. As glaciers ...

Now, the situation of the Thwaites Glacier in Antarctica, the widest in the world, is becoming increasingly menacing day after day. As the thermal reservoir of the Earth’s hot mantle defrosts ...

Glacier ice has great erosive power removing ... See how it’s above Loch A’an, the U-shaped valley? That makes it a hanging valley. Hanging valleys are created where smaller valleys meet ...