Sentences with phrase «huge chunk of ice»

Huge chunks of ice weighing several billion tons each were breaking off and sliding into the sea, causing minor earthquakes as they did so.

Scientists recognized that climate change is rapidly altering the landscape in Antarctica, particularly when it comes to glacier retreat and ice shelf collapse, so they made a pact for how they would approach research as huge chunks of ice broke off.

What Harding saw is called «calving,» when huge chunks of ice «calv,» or break off, a glacier.

Indeed, we are not even feeling all of that, at least in terms of changes in air temperature, because so much energy is currently going into heating large bodies of water and melting huge chunks of ice.

But huge chunks of ice, some the size of a bus, have broken off the shelf.

The avalanche struck a perilous passage called the Khumbu Icefall, which is riddled with crevasses and piled with serac - or huge chunks of ice - that can break free without warning.

At about the same time, a huge chunk of ice broke off the Thwaites Glacier.

The Larsen C ice shelf in Antarctica had a growing rift for years, that finally completed its path to the ocean and broke off a huge chunk of ice.

Bell and her colleagues looked at the Petermann Glacier in Greenland's north, which in 2010 pushed a huge chunk of ice into the sea.

Co-author of the report, Jason Briner, PhD, a University at Buffalo associate professor of geology, says, «One of the questions scientists have been asking is how long it takes for these huge chunks of ice to respond to a global climate phenomenon.

Last week, a huge chunk of ice broke off of Greenland's Petermann glacier, an event called a «calving».

That huge chunk of ice moved into the ocean and eventually melted in the Atlantic (see Related Posts below for more on that event).