Sentences with phrase «glacial river with»

This 16 - mile route is great for beginners and follows the Little Susitna River, a blue, glacial river with big boulders in it.

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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 river sands are topped with a thick layer of coarser sediment that signals the onset of glacial erosion in the valley, the researchers found.

The proportions of the canyon, as well as its meandering path, suggest that the feature was carved by a great river well before the island was coated with ice, not by glacial action in the years since.

With the chalk ridge forming a dam to the south, and the Rhine and other rivers flowing into the glacial lake, the water would have kept rising.

Greenland's glacial rivers may flush some 400,000 tons of phosphorus into ocean waters — on par with the Mississippi or the Amazon.

• Safe: free of disease - causing microorganisms (bacteria, viruses, spores); heavy metals; chemicals from industry and agriculture; pharmaceuticals; disinfectants and related by - products; radioactivity; and synthetic fluoride; • Fresh: neither salty nor stagnant; • Clean: physically, biologically and chemically; • Natural: coming from a pristine mountain stream, glacial river or fresh spring; • Hydrating: water with low surface tension and thus better hydrating; • Mineral balanced: contains a wide variety of minerals including trace minerals, excellent ionic activity (Total Dissolved Solids ~ 300 ppm), including cations such as calcium, magnesium, potassium and sodium; and anions such as nitrate, chloride, bicarbonate, sulfate and carbonate.

Over that time, we were faced with an incredible diversity of conditions: from glacial river crossings to decommissioned forest service roads, endless sand dunes and treacherous alpine crossings.

Climbing it rewards you with incredible 360 degree views of the area — Greenland's ice cap to the East, Kangerlussuaq to the West, and the glacial river called Akuliarusiarsuup Kuua below.

Here you find mountains akin to the dramatic landscapes of New Zealand, combined with the largest glacial ice fields in South America, slowly melting to feed into a vast network of turquoise rivers and lakes, with water so pure you can drink it!

Gallop past spectacular nature with an invigorating ride across mountain streams and through glacial valleys, or along the Dart River to Glenorchy.

He calculated that remineralizing the soil with river, seashore, mountain and glacial rock dust, would enable American agriculture to produce four times as much food or the same amount with a 25 % reduction in cost, without the need for pesticides or chemical fertilizers.»

Regarding Bangladesh, there was something in the press about a year ago that said Bangladesh is actually ADDING land area, because so much dirt / glacial silt is washed down the huge rivers, and is deposited in the deltas, so that even with sea level rise, more land is created.

The Yellow River basin only marginally depends on glacial melt; thus there is a notable 9.5 per cent increase in upstream water yield in the basin with an estimate of an increase of 3.0 ± 0.6 million people that can be fed in the Yellow River basin.