Sentences with phrase «floating piece of ice»

At Halle on his way to Eisleben, he was held up by floods which he personified in a letter to Katie of 25 January as a «huge she - Anabaptist» which «met us with waves of water and great floating pieces of ice; she threatened to baptise us again and has covered the countryside.»

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Now, just 20 km of ice is keeping the 5,000 sq km piece from floating away.

Now, the robot's first findings are already helping scientists piece together more of this previously hidden under - ice food web, including more evidence of the under - ice algae, as well as tiny copepods, ctenophores (jellyfish), predatory marine worms called arrow worms, and abundant amounts of large floating slime balls, known to scientists as larvaceans.

Jason Charlwood, a conservation specialist with Ducks Unlimited, points to hundreds of water birds, freshly arrived from the south, sitting on one of the spring's last pieces of floating ice.

Hooker Lake is grey and the pieces of ice floating in it look small, until you notice the size of the people on the shore.

Triangular pieces of mirror are mounted just above the booth's floor, floating like pieces of ice on water, reflecting the light from above.

Floating sea ice is always a maze of puzzle pieces and open areas.

A long - running rift in the Larsen C ice shelf grew suddenly in December and now just 20 km of ice is keeping the 5,000 sq km piece from floating away.

Icebergs are pieces of ice that formed on land and float in an ocean or lake.