Sentences with phrase «buried glacier ice»

Not exact matches

Mapping this buried range will help scientists understand how glaciers formed in Antarctica as well as how today's ice sheets interact with the ground below.

As temperatures drop from balmy summertime averages of 14 degrees Fahrenheit to as low as minus 50 in winter, buried ice contracts, forming vertical fractures that extend down into the glacier several yards, and can be several feet wide at the top.

In contrast to glaciers and ice sheets, which sit on the ground, ground ice sits in the ground, mixed with frozen soil or buried under layers of sediment.

Mars has a lot of ice, including buried glaciers like ones seen here from the High Resolution Stereo Camera on Mars Express.

No one disputes global temperatures have been rising since the little ice age low points of the mid-1650's, when these very same glaciers were increasing and crushing villages and churches — PREVIOUSLY retreating before that when these same churches and villages were built in mountain valleys, and when Andean children were being buried on dry ground in front of retreating Andean glaciers!

While glaciers and ice sheets may physically plug large stores of buried methane hydrates or pull carbon dioxide out of the atmosphere through millions of small holes, their impacts reach much further than their physical footprint.

What he wanted to know was how long ago the glaciers made their first forays into a long - lost forest to kill the trees and bury them under ice.

There are many other references dating from this period available from the Alps: records of advancing snow and ice burying silver and gold mines, alpine villages, farms and pastures being abandoned due to colder climate, even physical evidence recovered today under retreating glaciers.

The Holocene interglacial, the past 15,000 years, is a temporary respite from glaciers that bury New York City and all points north under a mile of ice.