Sentences with phrase «buried under the ice»

Marchant suspects more of these landforms are buried under ice, which covers more than 98 percent of the continent.

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.

The Dry Valleys form the largest, relatively ice - free area on a continent otherwise buried under ice.

In either case, as the ice grew, these microbes would have remained alive even as the sediment and lake were buried under ice.

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.

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.