Sentences with phrase «calving off»

The article claimed that earthquakes were caused by icebergs calving off the Helheim Glacier, and that these were increasing because of increased outflow from this glacier.

Massive icebergs calving off of Antarctic ice sheets and floating through the Southern Ocean deposit iron, which fertilizes the seawater and nurtures massive phytoplankton blooms.

It's a leap to go from global warming to taxes but the Left has been getting away with your money using that kind of logic for years and whether they're sporting a fraudulent «hockey stick» or worrying about the demise of polar bears or Rhode Island - sized glacier named Aunt Bee calving off Antarctica, Western academia just winks and counts the cash.

You'll get to «sail up to the face of a towering valley glacier» and «hike above the ice of Grey Glacier» while listening to «the sound of ice calving off hanging mountain glaciers.»

Massive icebergs calving off of Antarctic ice sheets and floating through the Southern Ocean deposit iron, which fertilizes the seawater and nurtures massive phytoplankton blooms.

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.

This iceberg, named UK211, had survived for three years since calving off the Larsen C ice shelf 385 kilometers south, but now it was drifting into warm climates north of the peninsula.

Some cosmologists think time couldn't exist until gravity calved off from the other 3 forces.

It was at this point that gravity calved off from the other primordial forces.

This iceberg, calved off the Kongsfjord Glacier in Svalbard, Norway, showed its «true colors» thanks to the overcast day.

Icebergs that have calved off the edge of the glacier are visible floating out to sea — but so are cracks hundreds of kilometers inland from Jakobshavn, on what would otherwise be a flat expanse of ice.

Thermal wavelength image of a large iceberg, which has calved off the Larsen C ice shelf.

The image shows, at the lower center, a thousand - square - mile iceberg that calved off the huge Larsen Ice Shelf sometime in January or February.

«There's an entrenched view in the public community that glaciers only lose ice when icebergs calve off,» says Eric Rignot at the University of California, Irvine.

While examining satellite sea ice data, Nighat Amin of the International Polar Foundation spotted that a 70 km2 iceberg had calved off the tip of the King Baudouin Ice Shelf in...

We used Sentinel - 1 satellite data to watch a giant iceberg four times the size of London break free from Antarctica's Larsen - C ice shelf in 2017, and now students can use the same data to measure if new icebergs calve off some of the fastest flowing glaciers in the world!»

But there's no reason to calve off large portions of Prop B in order to have adequate enforcement (So Wayne isn't willing to give up anything to get what actually is the single biggest win out of the whole conversation, better enforcement).

Explore the coastal town of Warrnambool where, from May to October, Southern Right Whales calve off Logan Beach.

On our third and final day we headed over to Tasman Glacier on a boat tour that took us on the lake for a closer look at the glacier and the «ice cubes» that had calved off of it in the prior months.

The Antarctica section that calved off — funny that there is an active volcano range in the sea.

In part because the large Jakobshavn Isbrae moves so quickly, it is difficult to tell the glacier ice (right and top) from the many icebergs it has calved off (center front) into the fjord.

Icebergs have always calved off of glaciers where they hit the sea, but the rate of calving is accelerating with climate change.

It may also shorten as icebergs begin to calve off, possibly leading to complete shelf disintegration.

According to NASA an iceberg the size of Delaware may calve off Antarctica's Larson C ice shelf.

In July 2012, an iceberg twice the size of the island of Manhattan calved off Petermann glacier in northwestern Greenland.

Not exact matches

The break - off is a process scientists call «calving» and it was detected by NASA.

The autumn calving cows are drying off, reducing the volume of milk produced and milk revenue received.

I thought it was mostly related to the fact that my husband was not able to take full time off of work for a little while (cattle farmers just don't have that luxury) to help us get adjusted at home, but it went beyond that and he was around as much as he could be at that time considering he was in the middle of calving season.

In a presentation Thursday at the Seismology Society of America's annual meeting in Anchorage, West showed that long - ignored data within the state's earthquake records faithfully capture dynamic change occurring above ground: ice breaking off of glaciers and falling into water, the phenomenon known as calving.

Some calving occurs quietly; ice can slip off a glacier beneath the water without generating seismic waves.

«Coincidentally, when melting took off, the ice sheet began pulling back from the coast and the calving of icebergs diminished.

Slabs continued to calve and break up throughout the next 10 days; by March 8 the Wilkins ice shelf, comprising some 5,000 square miles of floating ice off the coast of the Antarctic Peninsula, had lost 160 square miles of ice to the Pacific Ocean.

At its calving front, where the glacier effectively ends as it breaks off into icebergs, some of the ice melts while the rest is pushed out, floating into the ocean.

«The new branch is heading off more toward the ice front, so it's more dangerous and more likely to cause this calving event to occur» than the main branch, he says.

Stand straight with your feet wide apart, toes pointing either straight (equal emphasis on all calve muscles), inwards (emphasis on the inner calves) or outwards (emphasis on the outer calves), and raise your heels off the floor as you exhale by contracting the calves.

While spring calving seems a long way off, proper vaccine timing could begin yet this year if your herd calves early in the season

Every year between June and November the humpback, Brydes and southern right whales migrate to the warmer waters off our shores to mate and calve.

Southern right whales journey to the temperate breeding waters off Southern Australia and Victoria, while energetic humpback whales continue north to the Great Barrier Reef and Kimberley, to mate and calve.

On our active adventures, you'll trek through some of the world's most legendary mountain ranges; go kayaking amid icebergs and calving glaciers; and veer far off the beaten path, discovering wild and stunning landscapes by foot, horseback, and even dogsled.

«This is a huge problem as the whales use this area as a crucial feeding ground; the sustenance provided by the waters off Sakhalin Island see them through the rest of the year — through migration, breeding and calving,» said Leigh Henry, Senior Policy Officer for WWF.

The gray - whale - watching season in California varies along the coast during winter and spring as the grays migrate south to the mating and calving lagoons of Mexico, then return north to feed mainly off Alaska.

Marvel at glaciers and witness the amazing spectacle of thunder and spray as tremendous slabs of ice break off and «calve» into the sea.

Cruise through Tracy Arm, with one of Alaska's most dramatic glacier settings; the gorgeous Inside Passage, with its whales, soaring eagles, and more; and Glacier Bay National Park, where you'll witness the huge slabs of ice break off and «calve» into the sea.

They travel down along the Pacific Coast to their winter calving lagoons off Baja California, Mexico.

Dolphins are frequently spotted frolicking off the point, as are Southern Right Whales during the mating and calving season from June through to November.

Rich Press: Every fall, Gray whales migrate from their summer feeding grounds in the Arctic to their breeding and calving grounds in lagoons off Baja, California in Mexico.

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.

Researchers photographed and identified a mother - calf pair in Cape Cod Bay that had also been photographed during calving studies off the coast of Florida and Georgia in the winter.

If there is one thing we have learned, if you are to keep the global warming hoax alive, you must personalize the Global Climate scare - stories — e.g., first you give an ice shelf a name; then, when you hear that if calved - off Antarctica to just float away and silently die alone and forgotten, it's like hearing that a member of the family has been run over by a drunk driver in a SUV.

The former VP's film shows dramatic shots of massive chunks of ice breaking off glaciers, but this «calving» of icebergs is a normal, natural process, which has been creating our valleys for millions of years.