Glaciers are found in mountain valleys and also
form parts of ice sheets.
Not exact matches
the south - bound expedition had cleared that vast plain
of floating
ice which flows down from the great mountains
of the interior and covers the southern
part of Ross Sea throughout an area above 20,000 square miles with an
ice sheet approximately 800 feet in thickness, and had begun to climb the heights which
form the mountainous embayment at the head
of Ross Sea.
Hawkings and his collaborators spent three months in 2012 and 2013 gathering water samples and measuring the flow
of water from the 600 - square - kilometer (230 - square - mile) Leverett Glacier and the smaller, 36 - square - kilometer (14 - square - mile) Kiattuut Sermiat Glacier in Greenland as
part of a Natural Environment Research Council - funded project to understand how much phosphorus, in various
forms, was escaping from the
ice sheet over time and draining into the sea.
Eventually, the leading edge
forms a cantilevered
ice shelf that floats on the water but remains attached to the anchored
part of the
ice sheet.