Sentences with phrase «glacial waters flowed»

As the oceans levels rose, glacial waters flowed through the limestone deposits of the then exposed Lighthouse Reef resulting in huge subterranean caverns.

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This pure spring water flows directly into the Icelandic Glacial bottling plant located right at the source, in Hlidarendi, Iceland at the edge of the spring.

The water collected by Icelandic Glacial flows directly into our state - of - the - art bottling plant located right at the source, in Hlidarendi, Iceland at the edge of the Ölfus Spring.

Radar measurements and models of Earthly glacial ice flows led researchers to conclude that the glaciers spotted on Mars from orbiters contain nearly 150 billion cubic meters of water.

The results of our recent study suggest that the Atlantic water never ceased to flow into the Nordic Seas during the glacial period,» says Mohamed Ezat, PhD at Centre for Arctic Gas Hydrate, Environment and Climate (CAGE) at UiT, The Arctic University of Norway.

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.

Since so much of the ice sheet is grounded underwater, rising sea levels may have the effect of lifting the sheets, allowing more - and increasingly warmer - water underneath it, leading to further bottom melting, more ice shelf disintegration, accelerated glacial flow, and further sea level rise, and so on and on, another vicious cycle.

The results suggest that warm Atlantic water never ceased to flow into the Nordic seas during the glacial period; inflow at the surface during the Holocene and warm interstadials changed to subsurface and intermediate inflow during cold stadials.

In the Andes, glacial melt water supports river flow and water supply for tens of millions of people during the long dry season.

And study authors found that 2 C to 5 C warming of local ocean waters with somewhat greater local air temperature increases was capable of flooding these basins in stages — forcing Totten's glacial ice to flow out into the Southern Ocean and provide significant contributions to sea level rise.

Meanwhile, glacial retreat means that less water melts and flows into streams and lakes during these hot, dry periods.

If retreating from melt that means more glacial melt water flows into rivers.

Part of the water flow in these river basins depends on snow and glacial melt to perennial rivers, such as the Ganges, Indus, Brahmaputra, Mekong and Yangtze (9).

There are numerous other problems — warm water some how flows preferentially toward glacial grounding lines and stays there to melt the ice.

Higher elevation areas could experience altered water flow in some river basins if current rates of glacial retreat continue, but shifts in the location, intensity, and variability of rain and snow due to climate change will likely have a greater impact on regional water supplies.

The researchers do not yet know whether the draining water is increasing glacial flow, and nor can they be sure how many such depressions in the Greenland ice mask buried meltwater storage tanks.