Sentences with phrase «formed by glaciers»

Its breathtaking landscape, formed by glaciers, consists of massive fiords, snow - capped mountains, impressive waterfalls and stunning lakes.

The lake's beautifully - colored rocks were formed by glaciers, as were many of the impressive cliffs and waterfalls nearby.

Lamoille Canyon (formed by glaciers) and the Ruby Mountains (a.k.a..

Milford Sound, New Zealand — Well, already imagine how beautiful the bay formed by glaciers.

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A glacier is formed by the falling of snow that collects over a period of time.

Retreating Ice Glacier National Park, Montana Most of the ice that carved Glacier National Park's ridges and valleys melted more than 10,000 years ago, but by the time fur trappers ventured into the area in the 1800s, new glaciers had formed.

These valleys are characterized by harsh katabatic winds, glaciers, sandy surroundings, and permanent ice - covered lakes, which harbour the most exceptional life - in - ice - forms I have ever seen.

Supraglacial (surface) water on a glacier is formed by the ice melting during the summer.

Serve small portions to children explaining that the blue is the icy center of a glacier (a mass of ice formed by compacted snow) and the white on top is snow with silt (fine bits of sand and clay) in it.

Now, in addition to glaciers, snowfields and expansive views, Fimmvörðuháls boasts fresh craters and lava flows formed by the volcano's blast.

The valley was formed by an ancient glacier, and is now home to rivers, lakes, tussock flats and beech forests, all surrounded by precipitous mountains.

Lake Te Anau was formed by a huge glacier thousands of years ago.

The terrain is fairly jagged, with many gullies and streams fed by glaciers which eventually pour into the Urubamba river, which crosses the area forming a deep valley which runs through the granite base of Vilcabamba for more than 40 km through a variety of eco-systems.

Hartley's most prominent project, Nowhere Island (2012), saw a vision come to life after an arctic expedition in which a newly formed island had been created by a retreating glacier and was tugged to the British coast.

These are akin to enormous glaciers: hundreds of metres thick, floating on the sea, formed mostly by precipitation, steadily flowing out to sea and breaking up into bergs.

The glaciers that formed the broad, flat valley surrounded by mountains — Flathead County's namesake — are losing mass and retreating as the region warms.

In 2003 A circular mountain region forming the head of a glacier in Antarctica was named the «Corell Cirque» by the Board on Geographical Names (79 ° 54 ′ 00 ″ S, 155 ° 57 ′ 00 ″ E).

Which forms the basis for the IPCC claim of high climate sensitivity (mean value of 3.2 C), resulting in significant global warming (up to 6.4 C warming by 2100), «extreme high sea levels», increased «heat waves», increased «heavy rains» and floods, increased «droughts», increased «intense tropical cyclones» — which, in turn, lead to crop failures, disappearance of glaciers now supplying drinking water to millions, increased vector borne diseases, etc. (for short, potentially catastrophic AGW — or «CAGW»).

[See comparison map below] The Antarctic landmass is entirely covered by an immense, thick glacier, and this entire continent (consisting of land and glacier) is surrounded by ocean waters that freeze to form sea ice.

Year after year the snow would accumulate, little by little, and the glaciers would form and expand.

The existence of the glaciers would lower the average temperature of the Earth by reflecting back much of the sunlight that fell on them, and slowly sea ice in the Arctic Ocean would form and expand.

PTI: Studies conducted by Geological Survey of India indicate some of the likely impacts of melting of glaciers on the hydrological system in form of changes in the river hydrology, increased debri...

These were formed as moraine - dammed lakes and the glacier - lake area was estimated to have increased approximately by 2591 sq.meters during the 47 - year period.

PTI: Studies conducted by Geological Survey of India indicate some of the likely impacts of melting of glaciers on the hydrological system in form of changes in the river hydrology, increased debris production and siltation of rivers in downstream region.

Deep beneath Antartica's glaciers, formed by steam from active volcanos, are extensive subglacial cave networks.

Thus we have berm, a lovely word for a longish mound used for landscaping; pingos, if you're up north, where they'll be rather large conical upthrusts of ice covered with some soil (and, of course, given the yin / yang of this business, further south also a circular depression typically filled with water); further south still you'll trip over drumlins, formations made up of till left by receding glaciers, and not to be confused with eskers, which seem to have formed within holes inside glacier.