Sentences with phrase «crack spreading across»

Researchers from the British Antarctic Survey - funded collaboration Project MIDAS reported that the shelf, whose neighbours Larsen A and B collapsed in 1995 and 2002 respectively, now has a huge crack spreading across its surface — one that is growing rapidly.

Cracks spread across the screen's surface and a frown stretched across my face.

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BREAK UP Last year a crack stretching tens of kilometers rapidly spread across Larsen C, shown here in 2009, one of the largest ice shelves in Antarctica.

A forlorn quality defines «Louie,» but there is a joy here, worth waiting for, especially when Louie cracks himself up, and a genuine smile spreads across his meaty, freckled face.

The black shape has faded to grey, but still tilts sharp and subversive against the correct white rectangle on which it floats, fine cracks spreading like laughter lines across the surface.

Surface meltwater can penetrate through cracks in the surface, and force them open, allowing large amounts of water to drain to the bed and spread out across the base of the ice sheet, lubricating it (Zwally et al. 2002).

Perhaps you have a little spider crack from a stone that flew off of a gravel truck, and the crack is spreading across your vehicle's windshield.

In the week following October 10, a story of law enforcement cracking down on a drunk driver spread quickly across...