Sentences with phrase «deep ice fields»

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We walked across the field, knee deep in last summer's clover with ice now clinging to it, the sun low on the horizon, sinking into the graveyard before us.

Now, using gravitometers and magnetometers, which measure fluctuations in gravity and magnetic fields, as well as deep - earth measurements from seismometers embedded in the ice, Bell is closing in on answers.

Last year, a study of its gravitational field hinted at a 10 - kilometer - thick regional ocean around the south pole lying under an ice crust some 30 to 40 kilometers deep.

In the southern reaches of Patagonia is the breathtakingly beautiful Parque Nacional Torres del Paine, which is dominated by rugged mountain peaks, deep fjords and channels teeming with penguins, and enormous ice fields flanked by brilliant blue glaciers.

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.

I've just returned from the deep field site at Aurora Basin where the Australians are drilling a new 400 - meter ice core which we will analyze in my lab in Reno.

The technological challenges involved with sampling the deep, more remote, or ice - covered regions, as well as obtaining good winter data, require year - round access to field sites with specialist research vessels.