Sentences with phrase «cracks in the ice forming»

The gas breaks through to the surface exploiting weaknesses and cracks in the ice forming geysers or jets.

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Eventually, possibly a few hundred million years after the moon formed, the deepest parts of the ocean froze, swelling to crack surface ice — which may have been 10 km thick or more — just as ice cubes in a freezer often do.

A crack has formed across a section of the Ross Ice Shelf in Antarctica, partially breaking it away from the continent.

To assess whether liquid water flowed over the region during the heat spells Mars experiences every 50,000 years, an onboard microscope will examine cracks in the subsurface ice that should form during cold times.

Photosynthetic life might support «crack» habitats in thin ice, if daily tides force water into the cracks formed by gravitational flexing from Jupiter (more).

As this water moves through rocks, it dissolves salt compounds and pushes through fractures in the overlying ice to form reservoirs closer the moon's surface, where it is expelled into space when the outermost layer of the crust cracks open and the resulting depressurization of these reservoirs causes water vapor and ice particles to shoot out in the observed plumes.

The stunning blue meltwater lake that formed on the Arctic ice disappeared on Monday (July 29), draining through a crack in the underlying ice floe.

At a Russian tourist camp on sea ice floating near the North Pole in 2003, a crack formed in a matter of hours.

But in recent years, the ice has more often been internally fissured and riven with enormous «leads» — areas of open water that can form as the ice pack shifts and cracks — or melts.

Crevasses are deep cracks that form in an ice sheet as a result of its movement.

In both 2010 and 2012 Manhattan - sized ice islands formed when a lateral crack grew and reached the central channel.

I've videotaped the cracks forming in shifting sea ice beneath a floating research camp near the North Pole.

Use a small ice - cream scoop * to form balls of the dough, and roll Bake at 400 degrees until the cookies are set in center and begin to crack (they will not brown), about 10 minutes, rotating the baking sheets after five minutes.