Sentences with phrase «deep subglacial»

Clarke, T.S. & Echelmeyer, K. 1996: Seismic - reflection evidence for a deep subglacial trough beneath Jakobshavns Isbræ, West Greenland.

Clarke, T.S. & Echelmeyer, K. 1996: Seismic - reflection evidence for a deep subglacial trough beneath Jakobshavns Isbræ, West Greenland.

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Their analysis, recently published in Geology, reveals a subglacial lake covering as much as 1,250 square kilometers (making it the second - largest subglacial lake in Antarctica by length after Lake Vostok) and a series of canyons that extend a kilometer deep and 1,100 kilometers across.

In its wake, the subglacial flash flood left a spectacular maze of channels, some hundreds of meters deep, incised into the stone, an intricate complex of meandering pathways called the Labyrinth.

Subglacial lakes provide earthly analogs of ice - covered oceans deep beneath the surface of moons orbiting Jupiter and Saturn.

More surprisingly, they reveal hot rock beneath the Bentley Subglacial Trench, a deep basin at the other end of the transect.

Photojournalist Keith Heyward uses a dolly to film above a formation in the Dry Valleys known as the Labyrinth, a series of deep troughs and ridges that researchers believe was carved out in a massive subglacial flood roughly 12 million years ago.

Clean subglacial access: prospects for future deep hot - water drilling.

The grounding line is where the ice stream become afloat, so if a subglacial lake breaches to the ocean, unless it is deep for the ice stream to become floating, it will not alter the grounding line in and of itself.

The next step for the subglacial methane hydrate work will be to secure more funding to embark on another drilling expedition to a deeper lake.

Deep in the Antarctic interior, buried under thousands of meters (more than two miles) of ice, lies Lake Vostok, the world's largest subglacial lake.

Deep beneath Antartica's glaciers, formed by steam from active volcanos, are extensive subglacial cave networks.