Sentences with phrase «how glaciers advance»

At the 37:30 mark the ZDF describes how glaciers advanced over North America, Scandinavia and the Alps, where entire villages were swallowed by the ice.

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But as the Yahtse advances, it is also thinning, underscoring the mystery behind exactly how these glaciers change over time.

Using marine seismic technology deployed from an icebreaker, researchers were able to reconstruct how glaciers on the Sabrina Coast have advanced and retreated during the past 50 million years.

As the glacier / icefjord icebergs advance with a speed of over 30 m / day, any dam (how heavy it may be made) will be pushed away by the forces behind the ice front... Not to be forgotten the harsh winter freezing there...

With the exception of glaciers that terminate in the ocean, and glaciers in the polar regions or at extreme high altitudes where the temperature is always below freezing, essentially just two things determine whether a glacier is advancing or retreating: how much snow falls in the winter, and how warm it is during the summer.

Whether a glacier retreats or advances each year largely depends on its mass balance — the difference between how much snow it receives and the amount of its ice that melts away.

It's odd how the hockey stick sails serenely on with little deviation in temperature as the glaciers advance and retreat around it

In New Zealand, we go deep into a crevasse in the Franz Josef Glacier to understand how the advance and retreat of massive glaciers during Earth's Ice Ages is tied to changing levels of carbon dioxide.

The question is how far will the levels of CO2, CH4, N - oxide, CFC and HFC, global land - sea temperatures, melting of ice sheets and glaciers, and sea levels need to rise before the critics realize that the delicate balance of the Earth's atmosphere — the thin lung - like membrane on which advanced life depends — must not be abused as an open sewer for industrial waste products.