Sentences with phrase «drive ice floes»
Yet the katabatic winds which blow off West Greenland are sufficient to drive ice floes away from the shore, and to induce a northwards ocean current along the coast.
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Scientists have explained Sputnik Planitia's youthful appearance by positing that it is an ancient impact basin — a giant crater filled with thick floes of younger ice that, driven by heat seeping up from below, churn and refresh the surface.
Each zodiac, driven by a member of the expedition team who guided us through the rubble of Antarctica's melting ice, allowed us the opportunity to cruise through the ice, spotting seals snoozing on the floes.
What drives the political argument of environmentalists is catastrophism and images of polar bears clinging to ice floes.