Sentences with phrase «beneath polar ice»

A geologist can take soil samples, sample cores taken from a tropical ocean or sample cores from beneath the polar ice caps.

The lake sediment record presented here corroborates numerous recent cosmogenic exposure dating studies indicating complex patterns of erosion beneath polar ice sheets.

Ana Bray, a Guardian long thought lost searches for a connection to her past - one that could be hidden forever beneath a polar ice cap on Mars.

Academy Award - winning Cold War thriller based on Alister MacLean's bestseller stars Rock Hudson as an American nuclear submarine captain in a deadly race against the Soviets to find a downed satellite beneath the polar ice cap.

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«Up until our expedition, catches had only been made at specific points and observations made on individual polar cod caught beneath the ice by divers,» says David.

Mount Belinda has begun erupting beneath its thick cover of polar ice, allowing scientists their first chance to examine an Antarctic lava flow in action.

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).

Impact craters at many latitudes sometimes expose thin ice layers a foot or so beneath Mars» surface.132 «At polar latitudes, as much as 50 percent of the upper meter of soil may be [water] ice.»

At a time when melting polar sea ice is causing so many to focus on which political power will place its flag over the Arctic, controlling the Northwest Passage shipping lanes and the petroleum resources beneath the sea ice, Miami artist Xavier Cortada has developed a project that engages people across the world below to plant a green flag and native tree to help address global climate change.

For this purpose — combined with a couple other programs — we took ice - based measurements that were then overflown by various aircraft with downward looking sensors, which in turn flew missions beneath the polar - orbiting satellite track.

No, 350 is the number of polar bears who drowned when global warming caused the ice to melt beneath them during the time it took to ring them bells 350 times.»

A team of international scientists is due to set off for the world's biggest iceberg, fighting huge waves and the encroaching Antarctic winter, in a mission aiming to answer fundamental questions about the impact of climate change in the polar regions.The scientists, led by the British Antarctic Survey (BAS), are trying to reach a newly revealed ecosystem that had been hidden for 120,000 years below the Larsen C ice shelf on the Antarctic peninsula.In July last year, part of the Larsen C ice shelf calved away, forming a huge iceberg - A68 - which is four times bigger than London, and revealing life beneath for the first time.

A long - lived paradigm in polar oceanography is that arctic pelagic ecosystems, characterized by short food webs, remain in a dormant state throughout most of the winter season beneath the sea - ice cover, which can last 8 — 10 months in some regions.

sod hasn't been along to explain that electric bicycles stop polar ice melting, so to forestall him Lloyd et al (2015) A seismic transect across West Antarctica: Evidence for mantle thermal anomalies beneath the Bentley Subglacial Trench and the Marie Byrd Land Dome.

Snails, snakes and spiders withering in the sun just don't pack the same emotional punch as a cuddly, furry polar bear slipping beneath the melting ice.

He sings far beneath the ice in the dark of a polar winter, so maybe itÂ's about time we listened to the incredible songs that this whale concocts every winter, every month and possibly each day!

Warming ocean currents could eat into polar ice - sheets from beneath, increasing the rate at which they flow into the sea, say researchers in a paper out in Nature Geoscience today.

He sings far beneath the ice in the dark of a polar winter, so maybe it's about time we listened to the incredible songs that this whale concocts every winter, every month and possibly each day!