Sentences with phrase «floating ice tongues»

In the Amundsen Sea Embayment region of West Antarctica, where glaciers terminate in the ocean and extend over the waters via floating ice tongues, six major glaciers are experiencing rapid rates of retreat.

One of our hopes with these flights is to understand the detailed topography under the floating ice tongue.

Instead, the glacier develops a floating ice tongue - a shelf of ice that extends from the main body of the glacier out onto the waters of the fjord.

Though the formation of the 700 square - kilometer iceberg could be a purely natural event — the result of a floating ice tongue growing too long and losing its balance on the sea — some scientists suspect that changes in Pine Island Glacier are due to changing conditions below.

Not exact matches

The Ross Ice Shelf, a thick, floating tongue of solid ice the size of Spain, is the biggest of the many such barriers that ring Antarctica and keep its ice sheets from sliding into the sIce Shelf, a thick, floating tongue of solid ice the size of Spain, is the biggest of the many such barriers that ring Antarctica and keep its ice sheets from sliding into the sice the size of Spain, is the biggest of the many such barriers that ring Antarctica and keep its ice sheets from sliding into the sice sheets from sliding into the sea.

Its floating front edge, the Totten ice shelf, sticks out like a tongue over the water and acts as a buttress for the giant glacier, slowing its movement toward the ocean.

Scientists previously thought that only glaciers with sturdy, cold ice, such as in Greenland, could form floating tongues.

Ice shelves are floating tongues of ice that extend from grounded glaciers on laIce shelves are floating tongues of ice that extend from grounded glaciers on laice that extend from grounded glaciers on land.

Numerous processes contribute to this, including the removal of buttressing ice shelves (i.e., ice tongues floating on water but in places anchored on islands or underwater rocks) or the lubrication of the ice sheet base by meltwater trickling down from the surface through cracks.

Once again the key to this glacier's second major ice loss this decade after limited retreat in the last century, is thinning of the floating tongue, which weakens the glacier.

Humboldt Glacier is much different as the lack of confining topography prevents the development of the strong ice stream flow we see on Jakobshavn Glacier or the weaker ice stream flow of Petermann Glacier and its subsequent long floating tongue.

In 1997, the floating tongue of Jakobshavn Glacier, the largest outlet of the Greenland Ice Sheet, began to disintegrate, and simultaneously the dynamic thinning of the glacier began.

Upon reaching the sea, a number of these large outlet glaciers extend into the water with a floating «ice tongue».

The corresponding increased ice sheet mass loss has often followed thinning, reduction or loss of ice shelves or loss of floating glacier tongues.