Sentences with phrase «enormous sheets of ice»

Europe and America are moving away from one another; the Scandinavian countries, once weighed down by enormous sheets of ice, are now rising.

Greenland is home to an enormous sheet of ice.

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As climate warmed, and the ice sheet collapsed, enormous amounts of methane were abruptly released.

But enormous blooms of photosynthetic algae also cover the snow - strewn ice sheet every summer.

That is because the enormous glacier, which constitutes 10 percent of the West Antarctic Ice Sheet, is thinning rapidly, allowing more and more of its land - based ice to reach the sIce Sheet, is thinning rapidly, allowing more and more of its land - based ice to reach the sice to reach the sea.

The Eurasian ice sheet was an enormous conveyor of ice that covered most of northern Europe some 23,000 years ago.

A new island has appeared off its coast, suddenly separated from the mainland by the melting of Greenland's enormous ice sheet, a development that is being seen as the most alarming sign of global warming.

The sediment records collected during the IODP Expedition 379 will enable scientists to better understand the glacial history of the area and the environmental impact of this enormous ice sheet.

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The Eurasian ice sheet was an enormous conveyor of ice that covered most of northern Europe some 23,000 years ago.

Since to me (and many scientists, although some wanted a lot more corroborative evidence, which they've also gotten) it makes absolutely no sense to presume that the earth would just go about its merry way and keep the climate nice and relatively stable for us (though this rare actual climate scientist pseudo skeptic seems to think it would, based upon some non scientific belief — see second half of this piece), when the earth changes climate easily as it is, climate is ultimately an expression of energy, it is stabilized (right now) by the oceans and ice sheets, and increasing the number of long term thermal radiation / heat energy absorbing and re radiating molecules to levels not seen on earth in several million years would add an enormous influx of energy to the lower atmosphere earth system, which would mildly warm the air and increasingly transfer energy to the earth over time, which in turn would start to alter those stabilizing systems (and which, with increasing ocean energy retention and accelerating polar ice sheet melting at both ends of the globe, is exactly what we've been seeing) and start to reinforce the same process until a new stases would be reached well after the atmospheric levels of ghg has stabilized.

New views from satellites, plus vigorous programs of precise measurements from airplanes and on the ground, showed that enormous glaciers could quickly change their speed of travel, while entire ice sheets could break up within a matter of months.

Warming in the Arctic is particularly important because of its effects on Greenland's enormous ice sheet.

As climate warmed, and the ice sheet collapsed, enormous amounts of methane were abruptly released.