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Unearthed ice may be the Arctic’s oldest buried glacier remnant

A landslide in thawing permafrost has revealed 770,000-year-old buried ice

An exposed patch of gray, layered glacier ice is exposed in a brown, earthen headwall.

In the headwall scarp of a landslide on Bylot Island in northeastern Canada, researchers uncovered the remnant ice of an ancient glacier that could be over a million years old.

Stéphanie Coulombe

By Nikk Ogasa

On a remote island in the Canadian Arctic, researchers have discovered the remains of an ancient glacier that could be over a million years old.