Sentences with phrase «deepest part of the ice sheet»

The oldest ice, trapped in the deepest part of the ice sheet, could reveal temperatures eons ago.

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Often defined as the area within the Arctic Circle, the unspoiled territory of the Arctic encompasses parts of Canada, Norway, Greenland, Iceland and Russia, and cruises here offer an up - close look at snowcapped mountains, deep fjords and gigantic ice sheets.

For example: much of the Antarctic ice sheet is grounded below sea level, and some of the deepest parts are connected all the way to the open ocean by ice grounded below sea level.

As Earth became colder and continental ice sheets grew, further increase of δ18O was due in equal parts to deep ocean temperature change and ice mass change.

Rapid sea - level rise from these processes is limited to those regions where the bed of the ice sheet is well below sea level and thus capable of feeding ice shelves or directly calving icebergs rapidly, but this still represents notable potential contributions to sea - level rise, including the deep fjords in Greenland (roughly 0.5 m; Bindschadler et al., 2013), parts of the East Antarctic ice sheet (perhaps as much as 20 m; Fretwell et al., 2013), and especially parts of the West Antarctic ice sheet (just over 3 m; Bamber et al., 2009).