Sentences with phrase «edge of the glacier»

Ice shelves (the floating front edges of glaciers that extend tens to hundreds of miles offshore) melt more because of contact with ocean water below them than they do because of sunlight.

Research published last spring in Nature Climate Change made a convincing case that that trek is now engaged in a 40 km retreat, a movement that will only continue to accelerate as warm water laps at the shallow leading edge of the glacier and as the glacier very slowly increases its angle of descent off of the continent's land shelf.

Southeast of where I live, water from the melting edge of the glacier flowed over the landscape, depositing layers of sand and silt and leaving behind areas with names such as Flatbush and Flatlands.

In 2007, researchers were collecting long - frozen plant samples from the receding edges of the glacier when they noticed some bryophytes — plants which include mosses and mosslike liverworts — sprouting new parts (as seen in the main image).

Each network is spatially fixed with respect to the adjacent bedrock edges of the glacier and using differential GPS where necessary.

The Aru glaciers probably straddle both categories, with the lower-most edges of the glaciers frozen but the central portion of its base thawed.

First, increasing snowfall since the mid-1990s caused snow to pile up and start working its way toward the front edge of the glaciers (a process known as surging).

As melting ice from these glaciers formed streams and rivers along the edge of the glaciers, thick sequences of sand and gravels were deposited.

The study shows that it's plausible, even if Mars was generally frozen over, that peak daily temperatures in summer might sneak above freezing just enough to cause melting at the edges of glaciers.

If Sir Edmund Hillary and Tenzing Norgay were to set out to conquer Mount Everest today, they would have to hike an extra two hours to reach the edge of the glacier that once sat close to their base camp.

Icebergs that have calved off the edge of the glacier are visible floating out to sea — but so are cracks hundreds of kilometers inland from Jakobshavn, on what would otherwise be a flat expanse of ice.

The slope was the edge of the glacier, but now we were walking on solid ground.

The coastline itself — the edge of the glacier ice — appears as a faint white line.

Professor Poinar continues, «Mammoths were much better at adapting to new habitats than we first thought — we suspect that subgroups of mammoths evolved to deal with local conditions, but maintained genetic continuity by encountering and potentially interbreeding with each other where their two different habitats met, such as at the edge of glaciers and ice sheets.»

The highlighted area shows a dense concentration of crevasses along one edge of the glacier.

Some are far away, like the swirling blue meltwater that laps the edges of a glacier, while others lurk just under our feet, like an ant waving a leaf like a victory banner.

Each measurement transect on Columbia Glacier begins and ends at a fixed location at the edge of the glacier.

It is showing the approximate former locations of the glacier margin (aka «the toe»; aka where the edge of the glacier used to be) measured at different points in time.

Now that the glaciers have melted, the land beneath where they were located is now rising, while the land at where the edges of the glaciers were located is sinking, i.e., subsiding.

Glaciers during the last ice age were so thick and heavy that their weight caused the land immediately beneath them to sink, while the land at the edges of the glaciers rose.