Sentences with phrase «flows under glaciers»

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When salt is buried under heavier rocks, it rises buoyantly in vast sheets and fingers; it may even fountain aboveground and flow like a glacier.

One 2004 NASA - led study found that most of the glaciers they were studying «flow into floating ice shelves over bedrock up to hundreds of meters deeper than previous estimates, providing exit routes for ice from further inland if ice - sheet collapse is under way.»

Because, and this is the crux of the new paper, scientists have discovered deep channels where warmer water can flow right under the glacier.

I suppose that as the under side of the glacier melts, the resulting fresh water mixes with the adjacent salt water, making it lighter and causing it to flow upwards along the under side of the ice.

Snow falls on glaciers, which flow downstream under gravity.

Alastair notes that increased water vapour will carry more energy to the surface of the glaciers, likewise these increased water flows over, through and under the glaciers is also transferring vast amounts of energy into the ice.