Sentences with phrase «giant iceberg»
The phrase "giant iceberg" refers to an extremely large piece of ice that has broken off from a glacier or ice shelf and is floating in the ocean. It is called "giant" because it is much bigger than a regular iceberg. Full definition
Ocean blooms in the wake of giant icebergs off Antarctica absorbed 10 to 40 million tonnes of carbon a year, the study estimated, roughly equivalent to annual man - made greenhouse gas emissions of countries such as Sweden or New Zealand.
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Like giant icebergs, the pumice fields remained a hazard to ships for years after the eruption.
Water freezing within the fractures would force the ice sheet apart, causing giant icebergs to break off.
Cape Denison was the main base for the original AAE led by Sir Douglas Mawson (1911 - 1914) but everything changed with the dramatic 2011 arrival of giant iceberg B09B in the adjacent Commonwealth Bay.
As social media personality Parabolic Trav aptly demonstrates, a four - figure Bitcoin is now nothing frightening; rather, it is just the tip (or base) of a potentially giant iceberg.
Until now, the impact of ocean fertilization from the demise of giant icebergs, defined as floating chunks of ice longer than 10 nautical miles (18 kms) or almost the length of Manhattan, had been judged small and localized.
These «bergy bits» have broken off both the giant iceberg and the remaining ice - shelf.
They are now heading through relatively ice - free waters to the Larsen A ice shelf, where a giant iceberg broke off in 1995.
The mission planned to explore seafloor life newly exposed after a giant iceberg split off from the shelf last July.
The jumbled - up rubble at the base of the ice mountains helps confirm team members» theories that the mountains are, in fact, giant icebergs that have moved around on more plastic layers of nitrogen ice below.
At 1:42 P.M. the ice was 250 miles in front of the onrushing Titanic when the Baltic sent it a message; later, at 7:30 P.M., the Californian reported that it was surrounded by three giant icebergs.
The threatened floating Petermann Glacier in northwest Greenland, which has been losing mass lost another giant iceberg the size of Manhattan on 16 July, just after the surface melting peaked.
By late in the year the giant iceberg had drifted a few hundred miles to the north; Vaughan said it could survive for as long as several years.
The crack is 260 feet wide, 195 feet deep and will eventually extend all the way across the glacier, calving a giant iceberg that will cover about 350 square miles.
Two months ago, a giant iceberg snapped off West Antarctica's imperiled Pine Island Glacier.
On the surface, Titanic's redeeming qualities may seem as barely visible as a giant iceberg lurking in the north Atlantic sea.
We used Sentinel - 1 satellite data to watch a giant iceberg four times the size of London break free from Antarctica's Larsen - C ice shelf in 2017, and now students can use the same data to measure if new icebergs calve off some of the fastest flowing glaciers in the world!»
When it comes to promotion, sometimes I feel as if I've been given a pocket knife and told success is in the middle of a giant iceberg.
Cruise the «White Continent» while viewing the greatest concentration of sea mammals in the world, giant icebergs, and endless glaciers.
There's something new to discover there every day, whether it's a boat steaming by or a giant iceberg drifting down from Iceberg Alley.
The image in Cross, 2012 features a chunk of ice that has become detached from a giant iceberg and landed on an Icelandic beach - the word «cross» evokes the sense of its passage.
That REM lyric has come to mind several times in recent days as the occasional friend or Dot Earth reader has described the spate of devastating floods, heat waves and fires, giant icebergs and other disruptive events as a sign that some momentous unraveling is beginning.
Giant icebergs are surrounded by ice floe drift in Vincennes Bay, Antarctica.
The study said the giant icebergs had an outsized impact in promoting ocean fertilization when compared with small icebergs.
Giant icebergs could be responsible for the processes that absorb up to 20 % of the carbon in the Southern Ocean's carbon cycle, a study suggests.
Writing in their paper, the team observed: «We detect substantially enhanced chlorophyll levels, typically over a radius at least 4 - 10 times the iceberg's length, which can persist for more than a month following passage of a giant iceberg.»
A team of scientists gathered data from 175 satellite images that tracked the passage of 17 giant icebergs (measuring more than 18km / 11 miles in length) through the open waters of the ocean surrounding Antarctica.
A giant iceberg, with an area equivalent to Trinidad and Tobago, is poised to break off from the Antarctic shelf.
Giant iceberg poised to break off from Antarctic shelf A giant iceberg, with an area equivalent to Trinidad and Tobago, is poised to break off from the Antarctic shelf.
The Jakobshavn Isbrae (the Danish word for glacier) is a massive river of ice from the Greenland ice sheet to an Atlantic ocean fjord and is thought — there is no way of proving this — to be the source of the giant iceberg that sank the Titanic in 1912.
2nd Highest Subantarctic Glacier Advance Of Last 1,000 Years Occurred 50 Years Ago Yesterday we learned that a giant iceberg just split off from the Antarctic Peninsula.
«Each of the last three years has seen a giant iceberg calve, from either Greenland or Antarctica,» he added.
In August 2010, Envisat observed a rare event in the Arctic - a giant iceberg breaking off the Petermann glacier in North - West Greenland.
Professor William Gray of Colorado State University, often described as the world's most famous hurricane expert, warned this week that Climategate is «but the tip of a giant iceberg of a well - organized international climate - warming conspiracy.»
Shortly before midnight the lookouts spotted a giant iceberg.