Sentences with phrase «valley glacier in»

In July 2016, the lower portion of a valley glacier in the Aru Range of Tibet detached and barreled into a nearby valley, killing nine people and hundreds of animals.

Rainbow is a valley glacier in the North Cascade Range of Washington, USA.

Mulligans is a picturesque executive length course surrounded by snow capped mountains and the Comox Valley glacier in the distance.

In addition, this same question could be asked about the valley glaciers in Alaska and elsewhere.

Not exact matches

Jill Mikucki of Dartmouth College in Hanover, New Hampshire, and her team analysed the water seeping out from a sub-glacial lake beneath the Taylor glacier in the McMurdo dry valleys.

«The undersides of glaciers in deeper valleys are exposed to warm, salty Atlantic water, while the others are perched on sills, protected from direct exposure to warmer ocean water,» said Romain Millan, lead author of the study, available online in the American Geophysical Union journal Geophysical Research Letters.

A small glacier lake known as Nagma Pokhari sits nestled in a valley near Mount Everest in Nepal, surrounded by steep walls of sediment that hold the icy waters in place.

The valley is Lambert Graben in East Antarctica, now home to the world's largest glacier.

A glacier «acts as sandpaper because it has rocks embedded in its base... so as the glacier moves, it's deepening valleys and smoothing off the tops of hills,» Horenstein says.

On July 17, more than 70 million tons of ice broke off from the Aru glacier in the mountains of western Tibet and tumbled into a valley below, taking the lives of nine nomadic yak herders living there.

The rock formation known as the Dias rises in the distance above Upper Wright Valley, part of Antarctica's Dry Valleys region, in which most of the glaciers are buried beneath thousands of years of accumulated rubble.

Hundreds of millions of people, including many of the poorest farm households, live in river valleys where irrigation is fed by glacier melt and snowmelt.

At least nine other peaks in the Teton range soar past 12,000 feet (3,660 m), while the deep valleys between them are filled with massive glaciers.

In 1840, the wily Swiss geologist Louis Agassiz swung by Glen Roy and offered the elegant theory that the valley had been dammed not by earthen barriers but by icy glaciers, a view that subsequent discoveries bore out.

Retreating Ice Glacier National Park, Montana Most of the ice that carved Glacier National Park's ridges and valleys melted more than 10,000 years ago, but by the time fur trappers ventured into the area in the 1800s, new glaciers had formed.

These valleys are characterized by harsh katabatic winds, glaciers, sandy surroundings, and permanent ice - covered lakes, which harbour the most exceptional life - in - ice - forms I have ever seen.

In addition, I had the freedom to conduct my own research in the Dry Valleys, taking ice samples from the surrounding glaciers to investigate microbial biodiversity in glacier icIn addition, I had the freedom to conduct my own research in the Dry Valleys, taking ice samples from the surrounding glaciers to investigate microbial biodiversity in glacier icin the Dry Valleys, taking ice samples from the surrounding glaciers to investigate microbial biodiversity in glacier icin glacier ice.

Layers of ice in the upper reaches of glaciers provide a year - by - year chronicle of soot emitted by local industry and by the coal and wood burned to heat homes in the valleys nearby.

For instance, Ekström says, in several cases major landslides have fallen upon glaciers and then scooted nearly friction - free across several kilometers of ice — which tends to muffle seismic vibrations until the speeding material slams into the opposite side of the valley.

The 20 - mile trip took more than two days, leading mules, professors and students 3,000 feet up and over a high alpine plateau and down several thousand feet into a valley, where they slowly weaved their way along a river in the direction of a boulder field until they finally reached the glacier's base.

That view got a big boost in 2003 when Brown geologist Jim Head and Boston University's David Marchant showed that terrain around Arsia Mons looks strikingly similar to landforms left by receding glaciers in the Dry Valleys of Antarctica.

Glaciers are found in mountain valleys and also form parts of ice sheets.

Both studies conclude that even dramatic changes in climate won't stop the retreat, because the glaciers are shrinking back into deep valleys with no ridges or mountains to halt their rapid pace.

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Models of mountain (alpine) glaciers are applied to solve similar problems to those models used for polar ice sheets, but typically have a higher resolution (a smaller grid size) and need to consider the effects of steep and often variable bed slopes, and the transverse stresses found in valley glaciers.

Not just any mountain, this race takes place in the Alps across France, Italy and Switzerland and features seven valleys, 71 glaciers and 400 summits.

Flathead Lake in Montana's Flathead Valley is fed by the glaciers in Glacier National Park.

The body was brought to a hospital connected to a high profile university in a valley surrounded by mountains and glaciers.

Delve deeper into the pristine wilderness of Jasper and Banff National Parks with a National Geographic expert, taking in their beauty from every angle — amid wildflowers in lush valleys and atop powerful glaciers and craggy peaks.

We stopped just a few times to admire the surroundings: the valley behind us that faded in and out of view with the clouds that passed over it, the needle - sharp ridges on each side that were too steep even for snow to stick, the thick glacier sitting just a few hundred feet to our right.

The silent glacier rested in the valley beneath us, with ice stretching back through the valley and piling up the mountainsides, eventually melting into the flat white of the February clouds.

You'll spend time in Banff National Park — Canada's first national park — with its valleys, mountains, glaciers, forests, rivers, and meadows, and Jasper National Park, with its majestic mountains and abundant wildlife.

White - water raft alongside forested valleys, deep gorges and mountains carved by glaciers on the furious Franklin River, in the World Heritage - listed Franklin - Gordon Wild Rivers National Park.

Gaze in to the depths of a land unchanged for millennia - slicing through the still waters of Milford Sound, ducking beneath dewy rainforest canopies and traversing mountains, glaciers and valleys along a Hidden Journey through an untamed, mystical land of fiords, islands and... Read More

By far one of the most strikingly beautiful skydives in the world, Nzones Queenstown skydive captures views of snow capped mountains, canyon valleys and glacier lakes after a heart pumping free fall from 15,000 ft high

As the second - largest country in the world (after Russia), Canada boasts a wealth of diverse landscapes, from the stark beauty of the glacier - hewn valleys to the lush forests surrounding Maligne Lake.

The Icefields Parkway is a beautiful stretch of highway with cascading waterfalls, ancient glaciers that you can walk upon and clear emerald lakes set in gorgeous valleys of thick pine forests.

Even in March (towards the end of the NZ summer season) the peaks are covered in snow, with glaciers clearly visible, carving their way down the jagged mountain faces, separating the valleys and leaving their impressive footprint for miles.

After regrouping in Makarora, we'll have a picnic lunch before taking a beautiful drive through spectacular glacier - carved valleys.

- Trek otherworldly landscapes - Breathtaking views away from tourists - Volcanoes, glaciers, & canyons - Experience lava fields & ash deserts - Camp in the Valley of Thor -20 hours of daylight while trekking

Transylvania isn't all about Dracula's Castle, it has numerous attractions: breathtaking views, glacier in a cave, astonishing landscapes, river valleys and deep gorges.

Team member activities include white water rafting, summer scavenger hunt, Christmas in July celebration, unlimited hiking (Consolation Lakes, Larch Valley, Eiffel Lake, Plain of Six Glaciers, Lake Agnes Tea House... too many to list!!!)

In his new exhibition at London's Lisson Gallery, his walks across southern England, Switzerland's Engadine valley and the glaciers of Antarctica are represented in the forms that will be familiar to anyone who has followed his 50 - year career: the stone sculpture, the mud - daubed canvases, the photographs of subtly altered landscapes, the wall - length text workIn his new exhibition at London's Lisson Gallery, his walks across southern England, Switzerland's Engadine valley and the glaciers of Antarctica are represented in the forms that will be familiar to anyone who has followed his 50 - year career: the stone sculpture, the mud - daubed canvases, the photographs of subtly altered landscapes, the wall - length text workin the forms that will be familiar to anyone who has followed his 50 - year career: the stone sculpture, the mud - daubed canvases, the photographs of subtly altered landscapes, the wall - length text works.

Locally, their loss could matter, but only very very locally (i.e. in the same valley the glacier is in), and only in late summer (in winter, it is the snowpack, which covers a far greater part of the landscape, which strongly influences temperature).

But overall, from Peru to New Zealand, from Kenya to Indonesia, from Canada to China, independent research teams have sounded a chorus of alarms as ice caps and serpentine valley glaciers dwindle at a pace unprecedented in thousands of years.

Delgado also notes that erosion and desertification have increased as the glaciers have melting, affecting nearby farming communities in the Valley of Mexico.

No one disputes global temperatures have been rising since the little ice age low points of the mid-1650's, when these very same glaciers were increasing and crushing villages and churches — PREVIOUSLY retreating before that when these same churches and villages were built in mountain valleys, and when Andean children were being buried on dry ground in front of retreating Andean glaciers!

Glaciers and rivers formed deep valleys that lifted the peaks to form the amazing landscape that is compared with the Alps in Europe.

Glaciologists have uncovered large valleys in the ocean floor beneath some of the massive glaciers flowing into the Amundsen Sea in West Antarctica.

You can't fake spring coming earlier, or trees growing higher up on mountains, or glaciers retreating for kilometres up valleys, or shrinking ice cover in the Arctic, or birds changing their migration times, or permafrost melting in Alaska, or the tropics expanding, or ice shelves on the Antarctic peninsula breaking up, or peak river flow occurring earlier in summer because of earlier snowmelt, or sea level rising faster and faster, or any of the thousands of similar examples.