Sentences with phrase «-112-foot sheet of ice»

In» The Inferno,» Dante tells of his imagined journey into hell, his entry into a» kingdom of eternal night» where he hears the voices of the damned rise» in a bestial moan» and sees sinners stung by wasps, burnt by falling fire and frozen in a sheet of ice.

Throughout most of the current geological era North America was a sheet of ice, but the global climate changed; mostly due to solar activity.

Holding my dreams in my heart, with a vision of leaping once again on a glassy sheet of ice, I embraced a plant - based diet and started eating vegan!

While most duck shooters snuggle deeper under the blankets, the Maine seabirder gets up at 4 a.m., drives his boat through swells that wash over the decks and turn them into sheets of ice, sets his trawl line of decoys, anchors in the lee of a ledge and covers his boat with rockweed.

Becoming emotionally invested in a sports team is an inherently irrational activity, so pulling out the «It's a bunch of people who don't call Pennsylvania home getting paid ridiculous amounts of money to chase a piece of rubber up and down a sheet of ice» on a sports fan blog is just as silly as deciding everyone who chooses to support a team from Western Pennsylvania is stupid.

After receiving a pass from Messi, Neymar dribbled into the box and made City defender John Stones look as if he was trying to walk on a sheet of ice.

How to get into curling - an intricate, tactical back - and - forth game on a sheet of ice, accessible to all ages.

I loved this experiment with cars and a sheet of ice on Hands on: as we grow, so decided try it out with my children.

Or just put salt on one side of the sheet of ice to see if it melts faster.

«We would also like to add a second sheet of ice to offer more rink time to our figure - skating classes, the Jaguar Youth Hockey team, and the public, who have only 1 1/2 hours of rink time on Fridays and Sundays.

«These people all commissioned demographic studies that showed they need a year - round sheet of ice.»

While the rink is a simple wintertime joy for young children, teens on a first date and state workers looking for a mid-day getaway, maintaining the 123 - foot - by -112-foot sheet of ice requires a lot more science — and thermodynamics is just one necessary subsection — than just figuring out where to aim a garden hose to build the ice back up.

Almost exactly a year ago, a 251 - square - kilometer sheet of ice broke from the Petermann Glacier in Greenland and started slowly drifting into the open ocean.

Today, Antarctica is fringed by floating sheets of ice that grow in winter and shrink in summer.

The water soon freezes, forming a thick sheet of ice down the mountainside.

The days were becoming rapidly shorter as winter approached, and I sat back and imagined the Arctic Ocean, just outside the clinic windows, under a sheet of ice in just a few months.

And over the past 18 months, two of the peninsula's largest ice shelves, the Larsen B and the Wilkins, have lost nearly 1,100 square miles of their total area, a sheet of ice about the size of Rhode IslandCK.

Europe and America are moving away from one another; the Scandinavian countries, once weighed down by enormous sheets of ice, are now rising.

Buried under a sheet of ice 2.5 miles thick, Lake Vostok is the world's seventh - largest freshwater lake and the largest of more than 300 lakes trapped beneath the Antarctic ice sheet.

Before Parzinger opened his grave, the warrior had lain for more than 2,000 years on an ice lens, a sheet of ice created by water seeping through the grave and freezing against the permafrost below.

A closer view of Larsen B (above) from March 7, 2002, reveals that what looks like a solid sheet of ice in the wider view is actually composed of thousands of icebergs that have broken free.

For millions of years, Antarctica, the frozen continent at the southern end of the planet, has been encased in a gigantic sheet of ice.

«The sea ice cap, which used to be a solid sheet of ice, now is fragmented into smaller floes that are more exposed to warm ocean waters.

A few days later, back at her office whiteboard, she thought about the collapsed sheet of ice above each lake, full of giant fractures like the ones above Grimsvotn.

There'd be a slight variation because the rock would move side to side, but in the standard curling shot, you'd have two or three full rotations of the rock going down the entire sheet of the ice and we did study that motion.

So what we did was we looked at all sorts of motion of curling rock [s] on the flat sheet of ice, the flooded sheet of ice, and also the pebbled sheet of ice.

The result is a strong, but nearly clear sheet of ice.

Scientists have long wondered if the moon's vast subsurface ocean, sandwiched between a rocky mantle and a global sheet of ice, could prove as habitable as Earth's early oceans.

The Larsen A, a sheet of ice the size of Rhode Island and 500 feet thick, was collapsing into the Weddell Sea.

Erosion carved these icy blue cliffs from sheets of ice just below Mars's layer of dust (Science, DOI: 10.1126 / science / aao1619).

Sometimes the entire sheet of ice below the camp can jerk and lurch.

An underground sheet of ice in the mountains of Transylvania has given scientists a glimpse of climate changes in prehistoric Europe that helped humans settle that part of the continent.

But there's liquid water elsewhere in the solar system; it's buried under thick sheets of ice on moons,» Francis Nimmo, a planetary scientist with the University of California at Santa Cruz, told Discovery News.

The massive sheets of ice covering most of Antarctica started as falling snow.

The channel and the Lincoln Sea, at the northern tip of Greenland, are normally covered by a sheet of ice several meters thick until around July, Dyke said.

But then, this massive sheet of ice began to melt.

Once a thin sheet of ice forms on a lake in Antarctica, a «race» begins between (1) ice growing downward, and (2) snow building upward.

The compression fuses old, buried snowflakes together until they become a dense, rock - hard sheet of ice.

Researchers have identified eight, massive sheets of ice just below the Martian surface, and they appear to be relatively young deposits.

Winter's shorter days and colder temperatures make fitting in a run no easy taskâ $» not to mention how arduous it is to stomp through snow or tiptoe over a sheet of ice.

Once I accidentally stepped through a sheet of ice into water while wearing them.

At a certain point, the woman lets go of the wheel, dazed, allowing the car to slowly maneuver itself onto a frozen lake, the sheet of ice cracking and giving way beneath her.

Reading Robert Pondiscio's recent article («The Left's drive to push conservatives out of education reform») calls to mind Al Gore's «An Inconvenient Truth» and its powerful image of a polar bear drifting helplessly on a shrinking sheet of ice in a warming sea.

In Austria, we tackled a man - made 20 percent grade that had quickly turned into a sheet of ice as we repeatedly stopped, spun wheels, and accelerated in the same spot.

A thick sheet of ice covers one half, and water runs over sharp boulders on the other.

I can send more pics via text after the sheet of ice we just received is gone!

The GS is happy to slide entirely sideways under full power across a sheet of ice.

One time when everyone was stuck on a sheet of ice on an uphill part of the highway and I was able to maneuver around those cars (some of which were also trucks)-- showing the ability of my truck to handle tough conditions.

The car's driving capabilities are also put to the test under the cold conditions, checking to see how the ForTwo and ForFour can handle while skidding across a sheet of ice.

After her daughter's death, Cookie's mind «slipped across the calendar like it was a sheet of ice» [p. 207].