An international team of researchers, including a glaciologist at Newcastle University, UK, has discovered remarkably well-preserved glacial landforms buried almost 1 km beneath the North Sea.

Photographs taken of a landform on the Oregon coast caught PSU geology professor Scott Burns off guard. They showed something he'd never seen before.

Fan-Shaped Landform And Nearby Light-Toned Material The focus of this image is on the western end of a fan-shaped landform, located at the end point of a sinuous valley.

Incredibly, a new study published in the journal Science Advances reports that these submerged landforms likely formed roughly 1 million years ago—smack dab in the middle of the MPT.

New images from the North Sea show never-before-seen landforms that were carved by a single, colossal ice sheet 1 million years ago and subsequently buried beneath a thick layer of mud.