Sentences with phrase «floating pack ice»
Pacific walrus use the floating pack ice both as a platform on which to rest between feeding bouts and as a passive transport around their habitat.
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PACKED ICE Floating ice — 4 - or 5 - meters - thick in some places — choking the Weddell Sea ended a British Antarctic Survey research vessel's mission to the Larsen C ice shelf in February.
Elizabeth Tjader, # 2, I agreed with you until you stated, «I wish it had been George Bush who floated in on that pack of ice.»
I wish it had been George Bush who floated in on that pack of ice.
That's because ice melting in Greenland and other glaciers is offset by increasing snow pack in Antarctica (melting sea ice has no effect on ocean levels, since the ice floats, for the same reason that ice melting in your glass of water will not cause the glass to overflow).
«Thirty years ago, «old ice» (layers in the pack some 5 - 10 years old) made up some 50 % of the floating pack at the end of the summer melt.