Sentences with phrase «glaciers and ice sheets expand»
During that time, which can last hundreds to thousands of years, glaciers and ice sheets expand in size and depth.
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Elsewhere many smaller ice sheets and glaciers grew, vast areas turned into tundra and deserts expanded as the planet became drier.
As glaciers and overland ice sheets shed ice and the warming oceans expand, sea level rise is accelerating; NASA says the rate of sea level rise has jumped from 1 millimeter per year 100 years ago to 3 millimeters per year today.
As the atmosphere and oceans warm, sea water expands and glaciers and ice sheets melt.
Sea level rise is caused by the ocean expanding as it heats up due to global warming and as major stores of ice from glaciers and ice sheets melt.
Scientists know that the seas will continue to rise as the world warms, ocean water expands and glaciers and ice sheets melt.
The principal causes are clear: global decline of land ice (mountain glaciers & ice sheets) and thermal expansion of ocean water (water expands as it becomes warmer).
The research suggests that mountain glaciers on Baffin Island and the huge North American ice sheet expanded quickly as the Earth cooled around 8,200 years ago.