Sentences with phrase «glacial ice frozen»

The crystal clear bottle captures the purity of the vodka through the natural fluid forms of glacial ice frozen in time.

Not exact matches

Glacial ice, her mirror, falling, Shatters into shards: each flutters Through the air; her splintered snowflakes Fly, all fletched with freezing feathers.

My itinerary was Torre del Paine National Park, a preserve of stark beauty with jagged peaks bisected by frozen glacial rivers of ice, herds of guanacos, nandus (large ostrich - like birds also called rheas), foxes and, most nearly - extinct of all, the rarely - seen authentic cowboy.

The causes of the warming remain debated, but Liu and his team homed in on the melting glacial water that poured into oceans as the ice receded, paradoxically slowing the ocean current in the North Atlantic that keeps Europe from freezing over.

Last year I blogged about the surprising discovery that mosses released after 400 years of frozen glacial ensquashment had managed to survive and sprout new growth, a finding that radically altered our ideas about regrowth during the retreat of ice ages.

After landing and under your pilot's expert guidance, you'll get to explore these glaciers massive crevasses, frozen landscapes, icefalls, glacial streams and ice pools.

Sea level dropped during the last glacial maximum, but there was no ice sheet in Siberia, so the surface was exposed to the really cold atmosphere, and the ground froze to a depth of ~ 1.5 km.

But the realms of ice and snow aren't confined to the North and South Poles — they also include the world of frozen tundra and boreal forests, as well as snow - covered mountains and highlands, especially the glacial regions of the Andes, Himalaya, Alps, and Rockies.

Perhaps they represent glacial advances that overrun terminal moraines and then freeze their rock into the bottom of the ice sheet.

Once a temperature threshold is breached, abrupt events follow due to amplifying feedbacks, even within a few years, examples being (1) freeze events which followed temperature peaks during past interglacial peaks due to influx of cold ice - melt water into the north Atlantic Ocean; (2) the Dansgaard — Oeschger warming events during the last glacial period; (3) the Younger dryas stadial freeze and the Laurentian stadial freeze.

The rivers swell and diminish as glacial ice melts and freezes, changing ocean currents and altering Earth's climate.

The observed effects of cryosphere reduction include modification of river regimes due to enhanced glacial melt, snowmelt advance and enhanced winter base flow; formation of thermokarst terrain and disappearance of surface lakes in thawing permafrost; decrease in potential travel days of vehicles over frozen roads in the Arctic; enhanced potential for glacier hazards and slope instability due to mechanical weakening driven by ice and permafrost melting; regional ocean freshening; sea - level rise due to glacier and ice sheet shrinkage; biotic colonisation and faunal changes in deglaciated terrain; changes in freshwater and marine ecosystems affected by lake - ice and sea - ice reduction; changes in livelihoods; reduced tourism activities related to skiing, ice climbing and scenic activities in cryospheric areas affected by degradation; and increased ease of ship transportation in the Arctic.