Sentences with phrase «floating ice blocks»

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The de Blasio administration floated a compromise with the developer who wants to turn a vacant Bronx armory into a $ 350 million ice hockey and skating center and believes City Hall is blocking the project.

They observed three types of ice losses, each with a distinctive and detailed sound signature: the splash of an ice block falling off into the water; the crack of a fragment sliding down the glacier's rough surface; and the soft thud of an underwater ice chunk breaking away and floating up, followed by a secondary impact as it surfaces.

To listen for clues about how such icebergs eventually break apart, geophysicists Douglas MacAyeal of the University of Chicago and Emile Okal of Northwestern University planted seismographs on the surface of iceberg B15A, a 71 - mile - long block of ice with the distinction of being the world's largest free - floating object.

«The randomly jumbled mountains might be huge blocks of hard water ice floating within a vast, denser, softer deposit of frozen nitrogen within the region informally named Sputnik Planum.»

One reason landlocked ice is flowing faster: The floating ice shelves that normally block that ice like a cork in a bottle are disappearing at a staggering rate.

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Harvested from free - floating blocks of ice, the work has been arranged in a clock formation on the Place du Panthéon, while world leaders and their climate teams gather in Le Bourget, Paris to discuss how to ensure a stable climate for future generations.

But throw billions of tons of bricks in and float thousands of ships and boats of all sizes on then we have Oceans rising, melting ice: add a large block of ice in your bucket then fill the bucket to the top, the ice floats above & below the water, as the ice melts will the water overflow?

What's more, the float kept working for half as long as expected and Cape Farewell's much - trumpeted pioneering route across an ice - free 78th parallel was blocked by ice, forcing it to follow the more southerly route it uses when mere tourists are aboard.

Scientists were able to reach the vast floating East Antarctic Totten ice shelf, which provides the backward stress that blocks the ice of the largest glacier in East Antarctica from emptying into the ocean.