Sentences with phrase «as glacial geologists»

As glacial geologists, some of the biggest questions that we'd like to answer are not only how large former ice sheets were, but also how fast did the recede and how quickly did they thin?

As a glacial geologist, George was responsible for the areal extent of these ice sheets and, as a glaciologist, I was responsible for their vertical extent.

Not exact matches

Geologists at UC Santa Cruz have now taken a close look at the structure and chemistry of glacial polish and found that it consists of a thin coating smeared onto the rock as the glacier moved over it.

Terrestrial glacial geologists (such as ourselves) can gain information of past glacial behaviour from mapping and dating former ice sheet extents, and determining the rates at which they receded and thinned, [e.g., 16, 17 - 19].

«As glaciologists and glacial geologists, we respond to the article «Glaciers — science and nonsense» by Cliff Ollier in the March issue of Geoscientist1.

Due largely to the discovery of stalactites in the underwater caves found in the Belize Barrier Reef, geologists have discovered that the Belize Barrier Reef was not created by volcanic activity (as many reefs are) but instead by the most recent glacial period instead.

My field geologist gut instinct tells me that the great forcings of major glacial periods (insolation, albedo, etc.) are regional and radically focused direct surface application or radiation of extra heat as compared with the well mixed, relatively homogeneous and isotropic CO2 tropospheric increase.

Formally, it is termed glacial inception, informally we geologists refer to it as «the climatic madhouse».

In 2010 geologists found evidence for a Dryas trigger in a massive release of glacial meltwater, as Broecker had predicted, only by way of the Mackenzie River system of northern Canada rather than the St. Lawrence, Murton et al. (2010).