Sentences with phrase «when glaciers advance»

When glaciers advance, they erode and transform the landscape they pass over.

Rapid melting there in the modern era is uncovering plants that were locked in a deep freeze when the glacier advanced many thousands of years ago.

Not exact matches

Now Bartholomaus and his team are investigating what happens when this advancing glacier meets the ocean in a region where about 54 glaciers empty into the sea.

If the Cordilleran Ice Sheet had still been there when the climate started cooling during a period known as the Younger Dryas, cirque and valley glaciers wouldn't have advanced during that time.

No one needs advanced maths to understand that when the outflow of certain of Greenland's glaciers accelerated to nearly double their past outflow that something very major was going on.

These are known as interstadial and stadial periods, which occur when glaciers retreat and advance, respectively.

These glacier and lacustrine data indicate a period of several decades to century length when climate conditions (cool summers, wet winters or both) favoured glacier nourishment and advance across western Canada.

When warm water intrusions subsided, the glacier stabilized, and even began advancing between 1985 — 2002.

Furthermore when solar flux dipped between the 1960s and 80s, a high proportion of Alpine glaciers, as well as glaciers around the world, stopped retreating and many began to advance as seen here in the Alps.

That would put it in latter part of the Little Ice Age when I imagine sea ice and glaciers must have been significantly advanced (Schneider quotes Pope Alexander IV on what must have been similar ice conditions around Greenland in 1492).

Glaciers advance when earth is cold.

The roman epoch generally varied from a period when glaciers had almost disappeared to ones where they were advancing, and every condition in between.