Sentences with phrase «by glacial»

She's frustrated both by the glacial pace of developments and the arguments of family lawyers, which she calls «elitist.»

This cold spell may have instead been triggered by increased outflow into the Arctic Ocean, the Fram Strait east of Greenland, and ultimately the eastern North Atlantic, between 12,900 and 12,800 years before present, as suggested by the glacial model of Tarasov and Peltier.

However, if the axial tilt of Westeros - world was sufficiently small, these regular seasons could be overwhelmed by the glacial cycles to the point where nobody would notice them.

Such as another fascinating paper by Don J. Easterbrook, Professor Emeritus in the Deptment of Geology at Western Washington University: «Solar Influence on Recurring Global, Decadal, Climate Cycles Recorded by Glacial Fluctuations, Ice Cores, Sea Surface Temperatures, and Historic Measurements Over the Past Millennium» — Hat tip to Anthony Watt's Watts Up with That.

Herabouts (Mid Wales) there are remnants of deep tropical terrestrial weathering (most was removed by glacial erosion in the Quaternary).

The peat layer is embedded in a sandy deposit capped by a glacial deposit.

The relative warmth of the climate around 1640 to 1660 approximately that I had expressed some scepticism about appears to be vindicated by glacial records.

More information: Jonathan L. Baker et al, Holocene warming in western continental Eurasia driven by glacial retreat and greenhouse forcing, Nature Geoscience (2017).

Hood, E., and D. Scott, 2008: Riverine organic matter and nutrients in southeast Alaska affected by glacial coverage.

Glaciers crunched human stuff that thrived in the MWP, now being exposed by glacial retreat.

Finding fragile identifiable fossils that have been moved by glacial action is not uncommon, at least in northern Europe and I don't think American glaciers are really that different.

I used to illicit gales of laughter when I quoted (in translation, and in my best Sesame Street Swedish Chef voice) dated documents about destitute farmers overwhelmed by the glacial advance who were seeking parish aid.

Floods, droughts, wildfires, windstorms, water contamination and illnesses plague the 1.3 billion people who live in the watersheds directly supplied by glacial melt from the Hindu Kush - Himalaya (HKH) region.

The area must have experienced tremendous rebound from depression by glacial ice over the past 12,000 years.]

A river gets blocked by glacial ice and 50 years later glacial lake Missoula breaks out and the Scablands of Washington State are created.

Depending on geographical location the land can be static or can be rising or falling either due to tectonic activity or by glacial action.

Gravity measurements of the ice - mass loss in Greenland and Antarctica are complicated by glacial isostatic adjustment.

Now as vast areas of land which are currently forested, were covered by the glacial period ice sheets, the temperate forest is no longer using carbon dioxide which adds carbon dioxide to the atmosphere.

Along with David Schilling, I had developed a model to reconstruct former ice sheets with ice elevations based on the strength of ice - bed coupling determined by glacial geology.

Currently covered by glacial ice, these lots should be available for development in the next ten to fifteen years.

Leaving aside the collapse of the Larsen - B ice shelf and other ice shelves in Antarctica, is it too simplistic to expect that dramatic changes should be anticipated first in the Arctic because it is sea covered by a few meters of sea ice and therefore more susceptible to change, in comparison to Antarctica (which is obviously land covered by glacial ice up to several kilometers thick in places)?

IN THE KINGSTON PROJECT SPACE Mira Cantor: Erratics November 1 - 26, 2017 Opening Reception: Friday, November 3, 2017, 5:30 - 8:00 pm Artist Page Erratics are formed by glacial ice erosion.

Intriguing pairings will encourage visitors to consider commonalities between seemingly disparate works, such as Giovanni de Vecchi's 16th - century drawing of a corpse alongside contemporary artist Olafur Eliasson's conceptual sculpture of negative space formed by glacial ice melted within a concrete block, The Presence of Absence (Nuuo Kangerlua, 24 September 2015 # 3).

The new galleries also incorporate more wall text, or «didactics,» to explain the groupings, and that too is another welcome nugget of innovation squeezed out by the glacial forces of change at the gallery.

Walk through forests, cycle past waterfalls or picnic by glacial lakes.

The park covers 140 km ², of which 16 km ² is granite islands, formed by upwellings of hot magma during the Tertiary - Cretaceous period some 65 million years ago, then later smoothed by glacial ice and wave action of the sea.

No matter where you stand amongst the ruins you'll be confronted with breathtaking views of a vast open sky punctuated by the glacial peaks of the surrounding mountain range.

Charming seaside and mountain villages, towering mountains, rugged terrain carved by glacial creeks, and Alaska's state sport — dog sledding.

The mountains were incredible; tall, covered in fresh green grass, and the valley was crossed by a glacial river.

After time here, we continue to nearby Maligne Canyon, a dramatic gorge formed by glacial shifting and erosion.

I fall in love with the towering misty mountains covered with snow, the two tiny stone outposts that mark the border and the sunny patches on the steep valley carpeted with chartreuse green grass punctuated by glacial streams.

Parents are infuriated by the glacial pace of school improvement, a sentiment shared by the principal of Boys and Girls High School who recently stepped down out of frustration.

But when the film fails to deliver on this potential and instead follows up with a second straight installment defined by its glacial pace and lack of interest, things go downhill quickly.

Now as vast areas of land which are currently forested, were covered by the glacial period ice sheets, the temperate forest is no longer using carbon dioxide which adds carbon dioxide to the atmosphere.

I suspect that many eruptions caused by glacial melting might happen eventually anyway, given enough time — but this research shows that warming could increase the chances of those eruptions happening sooner rather than later.»

New research led by Arrigo found that the most important determinant of productivity — or the abundance of phytoplankton — in these polynyas is iron that is being pumped into them by glacial meltwater.

Leaving aside the collapse of the Larsen - B ice shelf and other ice shelves in Antarctica, is it too simplistic to expect that dramatic changes should be anticipated first in the Arctic because it is sea covered by a few meters of sea ice and therefore more susceptible to change, in comparison to Antarctica (which is obviously land covered by glacial ice up to several kilometers thick in places)?

Scientists have speculated since the 1970s that the northwest flank of Arsia Mons may once have been covered by glacial ice.

The proportions of the canyon, as well as its meandering path, suggest that the feature was carved by a great river well before the island was coated with ice, not by glacial action in the years since.

Global freshwater resources water projects at DTU: 68.9 per cent is accounted for by glacial ice, 30.8 per cent by groundwater and 0.3 per cent by lakes and rivers.

One of the studies, led by University of Vermont geologist Paul Bierman, concludes that East Greenland — like the coastal scene shown in this image from near Tasiilaq — has been actively scoured by glacial ice for much of the last 7.5 million years.

They range from changes in ocean circulation patterns caused by glacial meltwater entering the ocean to the cosmic - impact theory.

Their results show that East Greenland has been actively scoured by glacial ice for much of the last 7.5 million years — and indicate that the ice sheet on this eastern flank of the island has not completely melted for long, if at all, in the past several million years.

Shaped by glacial temperatures, stark landscapes, and protracted winters, the traditional Eskimo diet had little in the way of plant food, no agricultural or dairy products, and was unusually low in carbohydrates.

At Scenic Caves you can explore the trails, caves and caverns carved out of the mountain millions of years ago by glacial ice.

Scenic Caves Nature Adventure — A a self - guided trail of caves, caverns and crevasses carved millions of years ago by glacial ice, and savour the breathtaking lookouts from the highest point of the Niagara Escarpment, set in one of Canada's sixteen UNESCO biosphere reserves.

Not exact matches

In response to a shareholder question about what could be done to speed up the glacial pace of adoption of electric car production by other car companies, Musk said he was «playing with doing something fairly significant on this front which would be kind of controversial with respect to Tesla's patents.»

Unlike Target, which crashed and burned north of the border by going too big, too fast, Nordstrom is rolling out its Canadian presence at a glacial pace: six stores over three years.

Meanwhile the glacial wisdom of our common sense has reasserted itself, having freed itself of an extreme, obstreperous, largely academic faction by shedding it into the sea.

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