DENVER (KDVR) — Clear Creek County Sheriff’s Office deputies are hoping someone has information about the vandalism discovered on a rock at St. Mary’s Glacier. The sheriff’s office shared a photo of a ...

Here, you can see how the glacier flour is distributed across the test plots. Subsequently, the glacier flour has been plowed into the soil, and grass has been sown across the entire field. New ...

Rock glaciers have also proven to be more resilient to changes like elevation-dependent warming, which means that the mountains are warming faster than lowlands. That’s, on average, 0.08 degrees ...

Rock flour is the fine powder that results from glaciers grinding stone into dust. The substance has been seen in vast quantities in Greenland and it is "finer than most sand found on a beach," said ...

Arlington, Va.– Scientists have discovered evidence of microbial activity in a rock glacier high above tree line in the Rocky Mountains, a barren environment previously thought to be devoid of life.

Many, many tons of glacial rock flour are created every year. And surprisingly, the rock flour is good for the environment. Crumbly rock, called glacial rock flour, is one of the byproducts of climate ...