Sentences with phrase «buried under a sheet»
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.
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Rovers have taken a clean sheet in 31 % of their home games and even though they have conceded in each of their last five home games (each of their last nine home and away combined) they may not come under too much threat from Bury in this one.
In contrast to glaciers and ice sheets, which sit on the ground, ground ice sits in the ground, mixed with frozen soil or buried under layers of sediment.
When they retreat, they leave behind a freshly polished, pristine landscape that is markedly different from land that has not been buried under an ice sheet.
They expected the detritus would be safely entombed in the ice sheet for tens of thousands of years, buried ever deeper under accumulating layers of snow and ice.
When salt is buried under heavier rocks, it rises buoyantly in vast sheets and fingers; it may even fountain aboveground and flow like a glacier.
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.
Earnest education advocates lose the support of legislators when they speak in acronym - filled sentences or present 30 - slide PowerPoints and 25 - page «fact sheets» that bury the heart and the moral urgency of advocating for children under complex statistics and studies.
If your dog is more like my Gypsy, you'll find her in our bed sleeping buried somewhere under the sheets and blankets like a little thermal bed warmer.
At the peak of the last ice age, about 20,000 years ago, with New York City and large parts of Europe and Asia buried under thick sheets of ice, Earth's orbit shifted.
«The grounding line is buried under a thousand or more meters of ice, so it is incredibly challenging for a human observer on the ice sheet surface to figure out exactly where the transition is,» Rignot explained in a NASA news release.