I may be reading things incorrectly, but it would seem to me that greenhouse gases must be in the atmosphere, as opposed to
buried under ice and snow, to be part of the greenhouse effect.
In either case, as the ice grew, these microbes would have remained alive even as the sediment and lake were
buried under ice.
The Dry Valleys form the largest, relatively ice - free area on a continent otherwise
buried under ice.
When they retreat, they leave behind a freshly polished, pristine landscape that is markedly different from land that has not been
buried under an ice sheet.
Marchant suspects more of these landforms are
buried under ice, which covers more than 98 percent of the continent.
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.
Not exact matches
Once he found that everything was up to snuff, his men loaded the coke onto commercial trucks,
burying it
under loads of fresh fish and
ice.
This tidal energy produces more than enough internal heat to create a global water ocean, possibly as thick in places as 50 kilometers,
buried under an outer layer of
ice a few kilometers thick.
Plant and animal DNA
buried under two Canadian lakes squashes the idea that the first Americans travelled through an
ice - free corridor that extended from Alaska to Montana.
Finally, she opens a door on the side of a rocky outcrop and enters the Svartisen Subglacial Laboratory, a research center
buried under 650 feet of
ice.
Buried under a sheet of
ice 2.5 miles thick, Lake Vostok is the world's seventh - largest freshwater lake and the largest of more than 300 lakes trapped beneath the Antarctic
ice sheet.
Under certain conditions, the
buried ice can persist almost indefinitely.
Scientists estimate the ocean is 60 miles (100 kilometers) thick — 10 times deeper than Earth's oceans — and is
buried under a 95 - mile (150 - kilometer) crust of mostly
ice.
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.
These lacy structures of
ice, found around the globe
buried under permafrost and the oceanfloor, have pores filled with highly flammable gas.
She devoured papers on glaciology, memorized equations that dictated how deeply
buried water and
ice flow
under pressure, and peppered Blankenship's team with questions about how
ice works on our own planet.
The discovery is the fruit of an international research effort to map a massive mountain range
buried under miles - thick
ice in a remote section of East Antarctica.
Of predictable discoveries, one can forecast several: another great
Ice Age painted cave like Lascaux or Chauvet; a rich Egyptian burial, perhaps as fine as Tutankhamen's; an ancient city
buried under sediment in the valley of one of the great west Asian rivers; and a rich cache
under the heart of a great Mesoamerican city.
The areas that appeared bright in the radio images but dark in the laser observations correspond to warmer patches on Mercury, where
ice would be stable only if
buried under a 10 - centimetre - thick layer of other material.
Scientists have
buried beads of optical sensors
under almost a mile of
ice, where it is dark and clear enough to detect the blue light of a neutrino - induced particle shower even from hundreds of feet away.
They expected the detritus would be safely entombed in the
ice sheet for tens of thousands of years,
buried ever deeper
under accumulating layers of snow and
ice.
But there's liquid water elsewhere in the solar system; it's
buried under thick sheets of
ice on moons,» Francis Nimmo, a planetary scientist with the University of California at Santa Cruz, told Discovery News.
Scientists believe there are massive amounts of
ice buried under the dwarf planet's surface, given that its density is less than Earth's.
Russian scientists are on the verge of punching a hole into a vast Antarctic lake that's
buried under more than two miles of
ice.
How could Antarctica have one or, more surprisingly, almost 400 unfrozen lakes
buried under snow and
ice — a «preposterous» 18 discovery made in the 1990s?
«On frozen planets, any potential life would be
buried under layers of
ice, which would make it really hard to spot with telescopes,» said lead author Ramses Ramirez, research associate at Cornell's Carl Sagan Institute.
With the rising levels of BPA and other plastic chemicals found in our groundwater, ocean water, and even
buried under 30 feet of
ice at the south pole, experts warn that these chemicals may be contributing to the rising health problems we are seeing worldwide.
There are even fairly clever ideas executed in this movie, such as the set - up, where Weyland Company (a precursor to the infamous evil corporation of Aliens) sponsors an expedition to explore a recently - discovered pyramid
buried deep
under Antarctic
ice.
This exhibition brings some of their finest exhibits
under one roof, including an egg from Darwin's famous journey on the Beagle, and a detector designed to pick up neutrinos when
buried a kilometre
under the Antarctic
ice.
Since this effect would not depend on slow rates of thermal diffusion though frozen sediments, but instead by a simple loss of
ice, which could occur more quickly, such hydrates might be more vulnerable to destabilization than hydrates
buried under permafrost.
At the peak of the last
ice age, about 20,000 years ago, with New York City and large parts of Europe and Asia
buried under thick sheets of
ice, Earth's orbit shifted.
Ports closed, ships became stuck or stranded in
ice and snow fell in record sums
burying towns and people
under its frozen wrath.
Deep in the Antarctic interior,
buried under thousands of meters (more than two miles) of
ice, lies Lake Vostok, the world's largest subglacial lake.
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 grounding line is
buried under a thousand or more meters of
ice, so it is incredibly challenging for a human observer on the
ice sheet surface to figure out exactly where the transition is,» Rignot explained in a NASA news release.
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.