Sentences with phrase «edge of the ice»

Dust trapped over the centuries has become concentrated at the melting edge of the ice sheet.

Around the lower - latitude edges of the ice pack, however, this lengthening was far above the average.

Edge of an ice shelf in Adelaide Island, off the Antarctic Peninsula, viewed from the IceBridge research plane.

In North America a massive proglacial lake formed along the southern edge of the ice sheet.

As the front edge of the ice pulls away from the rim and enters deeper water, it can retreat much faster than before.

Lead author of the study Joseph MacGregor said in a statement: «Typically, the leading edge of an ice shelf moves forward steadily over time, retreating episodically when an iceberg calves off (breaks off and floats out to sea), but that is not what happened along the shear margins.»

Floating ice shelves mark the outermost edges of an ice sheet and line nearly half the Antarctic coastline.

This photo has a resolution of about 80 meters per pixel, crisp enough to show the jagged edges of ice mountains that rise above a plain of frozen nitrogen.

New themed suites are designed each year to keep this ground - breaking hotel at the cutting edge of ice design.

During a flight over the Pine Island Glacier ice shelf, the DC - 8 banks over the Amundsen Sea and the clean edge of the ice shelf front.

The Pine Island glacier and its neighbour and twin, the Thwaite glacier, are at the outer edge of an ice stream.

«Now that we have mapped the whole edge of the ice sheet, it rules out any chance that parts of Antarctica are advancing.

The pivotal line for rotation of the continent is along the southern edge of the ice and some associate the New Madrid Fault zone and increased earthquake activity with this line.

An hour after taking off from an airstrip about 90 km from the western edge of the ice sheet, the helicopter lands on flat, dry, crunchy snow.

Stresses from ice flowing over bedrock or around islands causes fracturing, and at the front edge of the ice this fracturing leads to iceberg calving.

Roll the edge of the ice cream sandwich in the candy cane mixture.

Use a butter knife to smooth the edges of the ice cream.

Just press the edges of the ice cream sandwiches into sprinkles that fit the theme of your party and you've got a cool, creamy treat for birthdays, baby showers or Independence Day!

She even dipped the edges of the ice cream into chopped nuts for added texture and flavor!

Ice Cream: I back stitched a grid design on the cone, then sewed around the edge of the ice cream scoop.

Such brine would freeze as it moved toward lower temperatures at the edge of the ice cap, forming a ring of concentrated salt.

This isolated cavity of seawater, down at the grounding zone, sits deep beneath the back corner of the ice shelf — 850 kilometers back from where the edge of the ice meets the open sea.

The bergs, shaped like the long, narrow geometric blocks that descend in the game Tetris, rolled off the edge of the ice shelf and into the ocean to reveal their cross sections of blue glacial ice.

«We want to monitor the change along the edge of the ice sheet, particularly the outlet glaciers that are critical for stability,» says geophysicist Michael Studinger of Columbia University's Lamont — Doherty Earth Observatory, and a member of the ICE Bridge team.

There also are special regions where old ice is exposed at the edges of an ice field, Brook pointed out.

For example, in Barrow, Alaska, Saint Lawrence Island Yupik whalers helped improve census methods for bowhead whales, telling scientists they could not see all the whales from the edge of the ice, along with sharing insights on bowheads» ability to swim through the ice where they can not be seen.

Leopard seals — measuring up to 3.5 metres long — were almost certainly lurking at the edge of the ice ready to grab a meal.

Once the warm water reaches the coast, it circulates under the floating portion of the glacier via submarine canyons, melting the edge of the ice sheet from below.

But if these under - ice blooms occur in addition to the familiar blooms along the edges of the ice, then there's a chance that more carbon could be stored away.

«There have been many efforts over the years to photograph the edge of the ice sheet, for many purposes,» he added.

In fact, a third type of ecosystem exists along the edge of the ice cap in the northern Barents Sea, where Atlantic and Arctic ocean currents meet and mix.

How long it will take for the rift to reach the edge of the ice and cause the iceberg to calve is still uncertain and depends on factors like local winds and sea ice conditions, MIDAS team member Daniela Jansen, a glaciologist at the Alfred Wegner Institute in Germany, said in an email, though she thinks it is «very close.»

Researchers at the University of Washington and the University of Edinburgh used data from the European Space Agency's CryoSat - 2 to identify a sudden drainage of large pools below Thwaites Glacier, one of two fast - moving glaciers at the edge of the ice sheet.

Water molecules add preferentially to the edges of ice's hexagonal sheets.

The station lies at 71 ° 57» S and 23 ° 20» E, 220 km due South from the edge of the ice shelf.

Especially in West Antarctica, where much of the ice sheet sits below sea level, complex interactions at the edge of the ice sheet can sensitively affect the rate of ice - sheet retreat.

Schematic cartoon of a glacier flowing into an ice shelf, showing the grounding line and calving at the ice cliff at the edge of the ice shelf.

Core samples from the largest Antarctic lake, Lake Vostok, revealed genetic traces of microbes frozen at the edge of the ice sheet.

The caves in the limestone gorge of Creswell Crags have provided archaeologists with important evidence of human activity towards the end of the last Ice Age when the area was right at the edge of the ice sheet.

Thomas, I appreciate that they are imperfect things to compare, but have you ever seen pictures of the ice pack near the edge of the ice sheet where the melting is happening fastest?

Around the edges of the ice sheet, though, there is accelerated melting.

The atmospheric warmth probably contributed to this lowest maximum extent, with air temperatures up to 10 degrees Fahrenheit above average at the edges of the ice pack where sea ice is thin, said Walt Meier, a sea ice scientist at NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center in Greenbelt, Maryland.