Sentences with phrase «glacier masses followed»
A highlight of this Canadian Rockies tour is a journey on Icefields Parkway to savor stunning views of alpine meadows, waterfalls, and glacier masses followed by a thrilling ride aboard an Ice Explorer on the Columbia Icefield, the largest expanse of ice in the Canadian Rockies.
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This is due to the thaw following the last ice age: the melting of glaciers lets the crust rebound, redistributing Earth's mass and leading to subtle changes in its axis of rotation.
These glaciers have gradually slowed in the following years, but calving and mass loss from other glaciers on the southeastern Greenland coast and the western coast continues.
Predicted increases in temperature will drive increased shrinkage of glaciers, leading to initial increases in melt water produced, followed by subsequent declines with reduced glacier mass.
Mass balance terms include the following: ► Specific mass balance: net mass loss or gain over a hydrological cycle at a point on the surface of a glacier.
The corresponding increased ice sheet mass loss has often followed thinning, reduction or loss of ice shelves or loss of floating glacier tongues.