Sentences with word «calving»

A new study has found that the massive Laurentide ice sheet that covered Canada during the last ice age initially began shrinking through calving of icebergs, and then abruptly shifted into a new regime where melting on the continent took precedence, ultimately leading to the sheet's demise.

Historic photos and maps (from the 1800's to present) indicate a long term retreat of ice calving fronts on Greenland's glaciers.

«If an ice shelf loses contact with the ice rise, either through sustained thinning or a large iceberg calving event, it can prompt a significant acceleration in ice speed, and possibly further destabilisation.

If there were truly an increase in glacier calving events (due to warming or any other cause), the best evidence would be an increase in iceberg numbers starting in 1900 for example.

Immense craggy mountain ranges erupt straight up from colossal boulder fields, vast rivers of ice calve into deep blue lakes, and its intricate coastline is strewn with uncharted fiords and inlets.

Historical data show that whale numbers are concentrated in particular areas of the US East Coast at certain times, such as calving season.

The gray whale calving lagoons gained acclaim in the early 1970s when a gray whale made contact with a local fisherman, allowing him to pat her head.

Can a rising sea level can act as a boost for glaciers calving into the sea and trigger a surge of ice into the oceans?

However, this is balanced by substantial ice sheet losses on margins especially in West Antarctica as calving rates accelerate.

Researchers knew that the reindeer spent their summers in calving grounds in the north and migrated south to spend the winter in a bit more hospitable territory.

They lose mass by calving icebergs, and basal melting towards their outer margins, along with sublimation and wind drift on their surfaces.

Need some supplies for calving season?

A large calving event at the Zachariae glacier made the news in May 2013, and Khan and his team witnessed and filmed a similar event in July.

He'd been using the torch on his iPhone while assisting a cow during calving during a dark and stormy night (a likely story).

A new study shows how huge influxes of fresh water into the North Atlantic Ocean from icebergs calving off North America during the last ice age had an unexpected effect — they increased the production of methane in the tropical wetlands.

It is also used to treat dogs with Legg Calve Perthes Disease.

Increased basal melting also increases calving of the floating ice shelf and the loss of buttressing power that inhibits the glaciers» seaward flow.

The two whale calving lagoons are the World's most important place for the reproduction of the once - endangered North Pacific Gray Whale.

This whale population, hunted nearly to extinction generations ago, is slowly recovering, with an estimated 450 right whales dividing their time between winter calving areas off the southeastern United States and summer feeding grounds from New England north.

In addition, the existence of historical calving ground on Taiwan and Penghu Islands (with some fossil records [84] and captures [85]-RRB-, and any presence in other areas outside of the known ranges off Babuyan Islands in Philippines and coastal Vietnamese waters in Gulf of Tonkin are unknown.

The ice shelf currently loses around 62.3 ± 5 Gigatonnes per year of ice through calving, and loses 101.2 ± 8 Gigatonnes per year through basal melting24.

Even temperate ice is quite strong and can sustain massive calving fronts.

A giant rift, part of a natural calving process, has recently formed on the ice shelf.

WIDENING GULF A Delaware - sized iceberg calved when a crack in the Larsen C ice shelf reached the Weddell Sea this year.

This makes it difficult for a large calving retreat of the glacier to occur and extend inland.

It's vital we achieve this or we are likely to see more calving of large ice shelves, similar to the recent Larsen C event.»

Locality of gray whale calving site of Tojahui / Yavaros, Sonora.

Leg kicks stretch hamstrings, lower back and calve muscles.

Higher calving flux indicates higher velocities (Van Den Broecke et al, 2009).

To provide adequate time for antibodies to reach their maximum level in the dam and to be transferred to the colostrum while at peak blood levels, I recommend administering ScourGuard ® 4K or ScourGuard4KC about six weeks before calving.

An effective way to protect whales and coastal communities offering whale watching is to create sanctuaries — areas that provide safe refuge for whales during critical feeding, breeding and calving times.

However, note that the last time, the berg calved later in the summer (August), and this crack is much farther up the glacier than usually seen.

As the ice thins, the ice shelf connection with the pinpoints becomes more tenuous and more prone to retreat via calving.

«In the ensuing months and years, the ice shelf could either gradually regrow, or may suffer further calving events which may eventually lead to collapse — opinions in the scientific community are divided.

Alaska's glaciers contributed to one third of the world's ice sheet losses from 2005 to 2010, but a new study suggests melting, not calving as shown here, contributed to the most loss.

Trace / Erase Wax and aluminum growler casts Created from ice sourced from the waters of Prince William Sound, Alaska, theses sculptures were cast from melting «growlers» - ice recently calved from tidewater glaciers.

«With spring - calving herds, the bulls are out during the spring and summer vector season.

Hence the above velocity map of the glacier will indicate higher average velocities in the quadrants with the highest calving volume flux.

An expanding ice - free season also means bears» stay on land would overlap the entire caribou calving season and a good portion of a booming geese population's molt and egg - laying season.

DOI: 10.1038 / ngeo1887 Diverse calving patterns linked to glacier geometry