Sentences with phrase «as deep an ice»

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But when we saw that deep spot the dead sun came back heavy as an engine and my pick rattled like a gun.The ice unravelled; we peeled it from his toothy face, glittering brown, a woody rubber round his mind, the Bronze Age still stuck to his tongue.We etched; I touched his....

To make these lighter, reduced - fat ice cream or frozen yogurt will work just as well and, the way the coating is done, it'll still taste like it's been deep fried.

Peppermint - cocoa and Arbequina olive oil are beloved by regulars, as is the not - so - simple Universe IV (a white mole ice cream with «deep - black swirls of space, overlapping purple planetary superstrings»).

Went a little wild with this recipe and would rave, but I think you know how incredibly good it is... I'm presently knee deep in «tweens» who love it as a sandwich with your ice cream recipes as filling.

So I just tried to take a deep breath, calm myself and got home and iced as quickly as [possible],» Love said.

«Gettin» old,» Sampras shouts to a visitor as he clips theAce bandage that holds the ice in place, a self - effacing proclamation that hedelivers with a deep laugh.

If using deep ice cube trays, fill each cube only 1/3 full with liquid, as smaller cubes will be easier to consume during labor.

FORMER top David Paterson administration staffers Charles O'Byrne and Sean Patrick Maloney deep in conversation over dinner at Le Singe Vert in Chelsea... BILL and Hillary Clinton holding hands at Cafe Carlyle (chaperoned by Chelsea) as Kelli O'Hara, on maternity leave from «South Pacific,» did her caberet act... KATY Perry and Estelle «doing lemon drop shots and downing champagne» at Greenhouse... MATTHEW Perry jogging in Runyon Canyon in LA, and «stopping so many times to play with his iPod, he probably would've burned more fat off if he stayed home on the couch eating ice cream.»

It was early surmised that Martian caps must be composed of ice and snow, a theory which Prof. Lowell substantiates by pointing out that as the Martian cap melts it is surrounded by a deep blue band, which keeps pace with the shrinking cap and is clearly the product of its disintegration.

This cubic form of ice (crystal structure shown) is found only at very high pressures such as those deep in Earth's interior.

Eventually, possibly a few hundred million years after the moon formed, the deepest parts of the ocean froze, swelling to crack surface ice — which may have been 10 km thick or more — just as ice cubes in a freezer often do.

The findings will influence how ice giants are studied in future and could help astronomers classify newly discovered planets as they look deeper into space.

By combining that with modern tools such as the Global Positioning System and remote sensing, a deeper understanding of the fundamental nature of the ice can be gained as it changes.

This thin sliver of ocean reaching under the ice turned out to be 10 meters deep, and the camera came to rest on the bottom beneath it, revealing it to be muddy and strewn with pebbles — a flat, barren tract, devoid of any obvious signs of large marine life such as brittle stars, sponges or worms.

AMANDA receivers are sunk as deep as 1.5 kilometers into antarctic ice to filter out all sources of radiation but neutrinos.

As water accumulates in crevasses, its weight will drive the cracks deeper — «like a wedge,» Scambos says — until they reach the bottom of the ice, breaking off a long, skinny Tetris berg.

The analysis is based on the fact that as the world warmed following the coldest part of the last ice age 20,000 years ago, the ice deep inside the Antarctic glaciers warmed more slowly than Earth's surface, just as a frozen turkey put into a hot oven will still be cold inside even after the surface has reached oven temperature.

The researchers suggest that salts help lower the melting point for ice, deep underground where it is warmer, allowing brines to rise up as a cryomagma.

For decades scientists have theorized how that ice might act as an insulator, preserving vestiges of warmth and moisture deep within Pluto and other objects so far from the sun.

Using computer modeling to interpret images from NASA's Galileo satellite, Pappalardo and Barr demonstrated that acnelike markings on Europa's surface are probably bits of ice containing minerals such as chloride salts and sulfuric acid, which lower the melting point so the material can rise from deep below.

The brilliant orb of Earth recedes into deepest black as you perform zero - gravity acrobatics or eat freeze - dried astronaut ice cream as it was meant to be eaten — while hurtling through space.

Enter a new breed of drill, designed to do fast, cheap reconnaissance instead of extracting a single, intact ice core, as previous deep drills have done.

Zero, of course, he reserved for the temperature of ice mixed with salt, almost as if the physical laws by which men lived their lives were but a pale shadow of that deeper truth: the recipe for a truly kicky margarita.

«If protective ice shelves were suddenly lost in the vast areas around the Antarctic margin where reverse - sloping bedrock (where the bed on which the ice sheet sits deepens toward the continental interior, rather than toward the ocean) is more than 1,000 meters deep, exposed grounding line ice cliffs would quickly succumb to structural failure as is happening in the few places where such conditions exist today,» the researchers point out.

A March study shows that one large swath of the ice sheet sits on beds as deep as 8,000 feet below sea level and is connected to warming ocean currents.

«IceCube is a wonderful and unique astrophysical telescope — it is deployed deep in the Antarctic ice but looks over the entire Universe, detecting neutrinos coming through the Earth from the northern skies, as well as from around the southern skies,» said Vladimir Papitashvili of the National Science Foundation (NSF) Division of Polar Programs.

They're buried deep down in the ice, but they register the flashes of light that emitted when neutrinos interact with an atom and produces a new particle called a muon as the moon — muon travels through the ice, that's what lights it up.

There, the surface soil is also alkaline and low in salts, but deeper it can turn saline and acidic as the «ice table» is approached, he said.

«Unique diamond impurities indicate water deep in Earth's mantle: Scientific analysis of diamond impurities — known as inclusions — reveal naturally forming ice crystals and point to water - rich regions deep below the Earth's crust.»

There was an era called white earth which starts about 700 million years ago with alternating periods of deep ice sheets and then hotter warmer stages which led to formation of various kinds of crystals, and last and luckily we live in the period known as green earth, which started about 400 million years ago when multicellular life arose and wholly changed to biochemical breakdown the makeup of the minerals on the planet again.

The study marks the first time that human influence on the climate has been demonstrated in the water cycle, and outside the bounds of typical physical responses such as warming deep ocean and sea surface temperatures or diminishing sea ice and snow cover extent.

Some changes are well - known, such as declines in polar bear populations and stresses to walruses being forced out of their shallow feeding grounds as ice retreats into deeper waters.

Now, using gravitometers and magnetometers, which measure fluctuations in gravity and magnetic fields, as well as deep - earth measurements from seismometers embedded in the ice, Bell is closing in on answers.

«As the glacier's calving front retreats into deeper regions, it loses ice — the ice in front that is holding back the flow — causing it to speed up,» Joughin clarifies.

Camp Century was known to Colgan and other glaciologists as the site where the first deep ice core was drilled.

Other research has found that sea ice is a natural reservoir of iron, which is captured by ice crystals as they form in deeper water and float to the surface.

As sea ice decreases dramatically across polar oceans, some scientists see a silver lining: The algal blooms that seem to thrive where ice has recently disappeared could damper climate change by trapping carbon in the deep ocean.

During the later period, when there was less sea ice, the whales dove significantly longer and deeper than in the earlier period — presumably in search of prey as the animals, in turn, changed their habits because of different ocean conditions brought on by sea ice loss.

Amazingly, under all that ice lies a lake of liquid water, called Lake Vostok, that is 700 meters deep and as big in area as Lake Ontario.

The ice sheet now measures as little as 2 meters at its shallowest and roughly 55 meters at its deepest.

With higher levels of carbon dioxide and higher average temperatures, the oceans» surface waters warm and sea ice disappears, and the marine world will see increased stratification, intense nutrient trapping in the deep Southern Ocean (also known as the Antarctic Ocean) and nutrition starvation in the other oceans.

Now, new evidence from a marine sediment core from the deep Pacific points to warmer ocean waters around Antarctica (in sync with the Milankovitch cycle)-- not greenhouse gases — as the culprit behind the thawing of the last ice age.

Bacteria, however, have remained Earth's most successful form of life — found miles deep below as well as within and on surface rock, within and beneath the oceans and polar ice, floating in the air, and within as well as on Homo sapiens sapiens; and some Arctic thermophiles apparently even have life - cycle hibernation periods of up to a 100 million years while waiting for warmer conditions underneath increasing layers of sea sediments (Lewis Dartnell, New Scientist, September 20, 2010; and Hubert et al, 2010).

No one knows the origin of this ice, but one possibility is that ice - rich bodies, such as comets, left part of their ice deep in the subsurface following impact.

Imagine an ice sheet sitting — as much of West Antarctica does — in a bowl that gets deeper the more inland you go.

Scientists now believe that ice collects on the floors of deep craters at Mercury's poles, where it can remain permanently shaded from the Sun and reach temperatures as low as -235 degrees Fahrenheit (125 degrees Kelvin).

In Antarctica, even though as a whole it's slightly gaining in sea ice cover, most of these gains are over unproductive, deep - lying seabeds, whereas the newly ice - free areas are mostly located over highly productive continental shelves in the West Antarctic.

Here we show that the East Greenland Ice Sheet existed over the past 7.5 million years, as indicated by beryllium and aluminum isotopes (10Be and 26Al) in quartz sand removed by deep, ongoing glacial erosion on land and deposited offshore in the marine sedimentary record.

These ice shelves are being thinned from below as they are warmed by Circumpolar Deep Water11, which is being increasingly transported onto the continental shelf12, 13, 14.

Mankind's first close - up look at Pluto did not disappoint July 15, 2015: The pictures showed ice mountains on Pluto about as high as the Rockies and canyons on its big moon, Charon, that appear deeper than those on Earth.