Sentences with phrase «deposited by a glacier»
The boulders, they report in the 5 October issue of Science, were deposited by glaciers 1000 years after the end of the Younger Dryas.
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Balancing boulders on Earth are either deposited by glaciers or carved by wind and water erosion — none of which exist on a comet.
Sediment created and deposited by glaciers is called moraine.
Gray rubble on the flanks of Mauna Kea on the island of Hawaii lie in contrast to the red volcanic rock behind them, and were deposited by a glacier that disappeared thousands of years ago.
«Erratic» is a geological term of art for boulders carried and deposited by glaciers — in manners and places so surprising as to have helped give rise to science itself.
A boulder deposited by a glacier during the last ice age sits atop Cadillac Mountain in Acadia National Park, Maine.
Not exact matches
In a new study, Stuart Thomson, a geologist at the University of Arizona (UA) in Tucson, looked into the past by decoding sands deposited by the river, and the messy piles left behind by the glacier.
Much of the dust deposit east of the Rockies arrived in the last ice age, which ended some 11,000 years ago, when particles that had been ground up and transported by glaciers were deposited by meltwater streams.
Boulders deposited by an ancient glacier that once covered the summit of Mauna Kea on the island of Hawaii are providing clues to past climate changes on Earth.
Moraine Creek is certainly an apt name; it has carved through an impressive cake of glacial deposits containing rocks of all origins and colors, ground together, mixed, and mashed by creeping glaciers.
Black carbon deposited on a glacier a century ago could only now be exposed by melt.
Sheep and dairy farming further north than practical today (Nuuk area Greenland) Treelines higher than at present (Scandinavia) Deciduous forests (oak, hornbeam) further north than at present (Sweden, Finland) Grape cultivation further north than practical today (Yorkshire, perhaps southern Norway) Farmsteads at higher altitudes than practical today (Britain) or even overrun by glaciers since (Norway) Citrus trees and other subtropical crops cultivated further north than possible today (China) Driftwood deposited on beaches currently blocked by permanent shelf - ice (Ellesmere land)
Chunks of ice deposited by the neighbouring glacier swirl across the otherwise untouched lake and provide cabin colonists with an organic view of the water and craggy peaks beyond with just the mustard shelter for company.