Sentences with phrase «glacial stream in»

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Cassini discovered a strange, long - lived hexagonal jet stream sprawled across Saturn's north pole, and watched as the world and its rings slowly tilted through the seasons in their glacial motion around the sun.

One 2012 study estimated that late summer glacial contributions accounted for 23 percent to 54 percent of stream flow in several local watersheds.

For example, Jessica tell Mike how she and her colleagues pulled together a sweeping collection of paleoclimate evidence to reveal how the jet stream contracted and twisted in glacial boundary conditions, rather than moving monolithically south.

Timescales covered encompass the last 130 ka, in particular the time streams of the last glacial - interglacial cycle, the Holocene, and the last 2 ka.

At the Last Glacial Maximum, palaeo - ice streams extended to the shelf edge in West Antarctica and in the Antarctic Peninsula, but in East Antarctica they usually were restricted to the mid-outer shelf [44].

Episodic retreat is recorded by mega-scale glacial lineations that are overprinted by transverse grounding - zone wedges, each recording a pause in ice stream retreat with a stationary grounding line.

Recent glacial history and rapid ice stream retreat in the Amundsen Sea.

I fall in love with the towering misty mountains covered with snow, the two tiny stone outposts that mark the border and the sunny patches on the steep valley carpeted with chartreuse green grass punctuated by glacial streams.

There were braided streams surrounding Kamishak, hundreds of waterfalls can be seen as you fly in, and all of the surrounding mountains had that classic glacial curvature to them.

... indicates that glacial sediment sources were different from modern ones, which could reflect changes in the catchment areas of the glaciers and ice streams.

A process of dynamic glacial thinning also seems to occur, running back - stream up the glacier, in response to the initial shock of the ice - shelf loss.

While the mention of in situ stumps means those items have probably not moved from where they grew, a lot of the other material grew even further up the glacial stream and has been brought down to its present location.

But a new discussion paper, «The role of glaciers in stream flow from the Nepal Himalaya,» (Alford and Armstrong, The Cryosphere Discuss., 4, 469 - 494, 2010) concludes that glacial runoff contributes only about 4 % to the total annual stream flow of the Ganges system; the great majority is contributed by monsoon rains.