Sentences with phrase «as the channel melts»

This means they slowly develop walls around them as the surrounding lava cools and / or as the channel melts its way deeper.

Not exact matches

Fox accompanies a team of NASA scientists as they drive a refurbished orange Humvee across a frozen channel in the Canadian High Arctic, facing melting sea ice, mechanical breakdown, and the threat of marauding polar bears.

Previous studies have attributed those undersea channels — which measure between 1 and 2 km wide and extend up into the ice shelf as much as 400 meters — solely to the melting action of seawater.

I know that, such as East Antarctica, which ice sheet's thickness could reach several kilometers therefore huge pressure and geothermal flux results in melting, then the subglacial lakes and water channels.

So, as the leading edge melts, this deformation and filling would be first observed as a thinning of the sheet and, in particular, the trunk or main ice stream channel, as well as an acceleration of the stream.

As the glaciers melt during the warmer months they follow channels out to the ocean.

However, as some will already know, I remain convinced that the illustrations provided do not give an accurate picture of what must be a truly massive flow of kinetically heated melt water, emanating from the underside of the grounding line, at the centreline; that must be causing the creation of the central channel.

They conclude that rapid changes in the basal water pressure is key: long periods of sustained melt may lead to reductions in basal water pressure as the channels that drain the meltwater at the glacier base mature.

Additionally, much of the heat absorbed by the planet is channeled into melting solid water, and that heat is a massive quantity, given the mass of ice being melted and the fact that there's essentially no temperature change as the melting takes place (heat to change phase, as opposed to raising temperature).

Here in Australia, our second government channel SBS reported it as flaws in the IPCC and one of the things noted was the way ice melts are contributing to sea level rise.