Sentences with phrase «compacted snow»

Researchers were easily able to distinguish these ice layers from the surrounding compacted snow in the cores, preserving a history of how much melt occurred back through time.

Locked in the ancient striations — each representing a winter's accumulation of compacted snow — is a unique natural record of climatic and atmospheric conditions from decades, centuries, even millenniums past.

The team was able to distinguish the ice layers from the surrounding compacted snow in the cores to preserve a history of how much melt occurred through time.

In the wall of the pit, dark and light bands of slowly compacted snow distinguish snow deposited in the winter from snow deposited in the summer.

In the wall of the pit, dark and light bands of slowly compacted snow distinguish snow deposited in the winter from snow deposited in the summer.

«A huge mass of ice slowly flowing over a land mass, formed from compacted snow in an area where snow accumulation exceeds melting and sublimation.»

Serve small portions to children explaining that the blue is the icy center of a glacier (a mass of ice formed by compacted snow) and the white on top is snow with silt (fine bits of sand and clay) in it.

The Volant ski company, for instance, uses a heat - treated stainless - steel top sheet, which doesn't twist much, helping ski edges dig into compact snow during turns.

But in the late 1990s, scientists found that ice flowing over Vostok isn't just compacted snow.

Ours is shod with summer Continental ContiSportContacts and despite the lack of winter tyres, it has felt surprisingly surefooted when driving in icy conditions, and even on compacted snow.

The icy conditions were caused by traffic compacting the snow and not by ice pellets falling on the road.

The Greenland and Antarctic ice sheets are built from compacted snow.

Researchers were easily able to distinguish these ice layers from the surrounding compacted snow in the cores, preserving a history of how much melt occurred back through time.

Like glaciers, ice sheets are large masses of slow - moving ice formed from layers of compacted snow.

One suggestion had been to build a compacted snow runway at the South Pole Station, to allow lighter wheeled aircraft to land — but that may prove to be more expensive in the long run, NSF's response notes.

Similarly, a suggestion to build a compacted snow runway at McMurdo might prove unworkable due to climate change — seasonal warming over the last three seasons has made it difficult for wheeled aircraft to land there.

The warmer spring temperatures soften the hardened and compacted snow, making for excellent skiing and snowboarding conditions.

They think that the northern hemisphere's largest assembly of ice and compacted snow is more vulnerable to climate change than anybody had previously thought.