Sentences with phrase «glacial ice tongue»

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At the head of the gorge, glacial debris was plastered on both sides of the valley, confirming that a massive tongue of ice once plunged down a nearby 25,000 - foot - high peak.

In the east of Utrecht lies the Utrechtse Heuvelrug, a chain of hills left as lateral moraine by tongues of glacial ice after the Saline glaciation that preceded the last ice age.

Learn about the behavior of glaciers and hike with professional mountain guides on the Solheimajökull glacial tongue, a wonderland of ice sculptures, water cauldrons, ridges, and deep crevasses.

Sources as varied as marine sediments, corals, tree rings, stalagmites, boreholes, the length of glacial tongues, ice cores, and lake sediments all independently confirm that modern global temperatures are anomalously high.