Glacial Dust Storms? What Happens When Ancient Sediment Gets Airborne
Imagine standing in the shadow of a retreating glacier, the air crisp and silent—when suddenly, a gritty wind sweeps across the barren landscape, lifting clouds of fine, ancient dust high into the sky. These aren’t your ordinary dust storms. This is glacial dust, a powdery relic from Earth’s icy past, swirling into the atmosphere and ...