Sentences with phrase «as ice my tongue»

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

Not exact matches

I loved to squish them slightly as they got melty, running my tongue around the edge to catch the ice cream.

While these fudgesicles are not quite ice cream, the way they coat your tongue with chocolaty goodness makes them every bit as delicious as the ice cream we desire without all of the work.

You could try letting the ice melt on your tongue a bit, or even try munching on a carrot as a crunching alternative.

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».

Interactions between the ocean and ice sheets are particularly important in determining ice sheet changes, as a warming ocean can melt the ice shelves, the tongues of ice that extend from the ice sheets into the ocean and buttress the large land - based ice sheets [92], [202]--[203].

In the east of Utrecht lies the Utrechtse Heuvelrug, a chain of hills left as lateral moraine by tongues of glacial ice after the Saline glaciation that preceded the last ice age.

I bashed my face off the ice, my tongue full with the taste of blood as I struggled to stand.

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».

Humboldt Glacier is much different as the lack of confining topography prevents the development of the strong ice stream flow we see on Jakobshavn Glacier or the weaker ice stream flow of Petermann Glacier and its subsequent long floating tongue.

Interactions between the ocean and ice sheets are particularly important in determining ice sheet changes, as a warming ocean can melt the ice shelves, the tongues of ice that extend from the ice sheets into the ocean and buttress the large land - based ice sheets [92], [202]--[203].

Sources as varied as marine sediments, corals, tree rings, stalagmites, boreholes, the length of glacial tongues, ice cores, and lake sediments all independently confirm that modern global temperatures are anomalously high.

The so - called «Odden Ice Tongue» did not appear in January, February or March, as may be seen from these graphics depicting monthly extent derived from satellite images:

Two new studies of different ice shelves — tongues of ice that essentially act as bathtub plugs — have seen major melting that could portend a less stable future for the region.