Sentences with phrase «glacier ice tongue»

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However, it is often overlooked that the major ice shelves in the Ross and Weddell Seas and the many smaller shelves and ice tongues buttressing outlet glaciers are also vulnerable to atmospheric warming.»

Its floating front edge, the Totten ice shelf, sticks out like a tongue over the water and acts as a buttress for the giant glacier, slowing its movement toward the ocean.

Scientists previously thought that only glaciers with sturdy, cold ice, such as in Greenland, could form floating tongues.

As higher sea levels lifting the glacier, then the tides would constantly flex the ice tongues breaking and releasing the ice opening up the ice flow «cork in the bottle».

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Learn about the behavior of glaciers and hike with professional mountain guides on the Solheimajökull glacial tongue, a wonderland of ice sculptures, water cauldrons, ridges, and deep crevasses.

As higher sea levels lifting the glacier, then the tides would constantly flex the ice tongues breaking and releasing the ice opening up the ice flow «cork in the bottle».

Once again the key to this glacier's second major ice loss this decade after limited retreat in the last century, is thinning of the floating tongue, which weakens the glacier.

This was Snorrajokul, one tongue of the huge Vatnajokull glacier, the largest ice cap in Europe.

«Knowing the ridge is there lets us understand why the wide ice tongue that used to be in front of the glacier has broken up,» Robin said.

The glacier was renowned for an exposed ice tongue poking 40 kilometres out from the Antarctic continent but in early 2010 a 97 - kilometre long iceberg smashed into Mertz, resulting in the calving of a massive chunk of the ice tongue.

In the Amundsen Sea Embayment region of West Antarctica, where glaciers terminate in the ocean and extend over the waters via floating ice tongues, six major glaciers are experiencing rapid rates of retreat.

Its extensive ice tongue makes it particularly susceptible to basal melt processes, due to the area and duration of exposure of the glacier base.

In 1997, the floating tongue of Jakobshavn Glacier, the largest outlet of the Greenland Ice Sheet, began to disintegrate, and simultaneously the dynamic thinning of the glacier began.

Instead, the glacier develops a floating ice tongue - a shelf of ice that extends from the main body of the glacier out onto the waters of the fjord.

Upon reaching the sea, a number of these large outlet glaciers extend into the water with a floating «ice tongue».

Contrary to the aforementioned report, a recent study by Gardelle and others (2012) reveals that high rates of ice loss can occur on debris - covered glacier tongues (12).

In Greenland, where the glaciers empty onto narrow fjords, the ice shelves, also known as ice tongues, are far less extensive.

The corresponding increased ice sheet mass loss has often followed thinning, reduction or loss of ice shelves or loss of floating glacier tongues.

The Qori Kalis glacier in Peru, a tongue of ice extending down a valley from the mighty Quelccaya ice cap, has been melting rapidly.