Sentences with phrase «buried under glaciers»

The Viking settlements did not get buried under glaciers (Google Hvalsey Church).

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Iceland's Bárðarbunga volcano, buried under the giant Vatnajökull glacier, has been holding scientists in suspense over the last 2 weeks, producing frequent seismic rumbles but no signs yet of an actual eruption.

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.

For Mars, this meant a thin carbon dioxide atmosphere with what little water remained trapped in frozen lakebed glaciers buried under oxidized iron soil, or in seasonal floes of brine mixed with trace amounts of water.

When salt is buried under heavier rocks, it rises buoyantly in vast sheets and fingers; it may even fountain aboveground and flow like a glacier.

As glaciers in the Himalayas melt faster due to global warming, pollutants buried under them are finding their way down to the north Indian plains.

Then there is actual physical evidence: carbon - dated remains of trees (or even signs of earlier civilization) recovered under receding glaciers high above today's tree line, Viking farms buried in the Greenland permafrost, etc..

The best data of all, of course, are provided by actual physical evidence: carbon - dated remains of trees or signs of past civilization under receding glaciers, farm houses buried in permafrost, etc..

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.