Sentences with phrase «huge icebergs into»

Satellite images reveal clue to the hidden cause of fractures in Antarctic shelf ice that are calving huge icebergs into the south polar seas.

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The icebergs that find their way into the paths of transatlantic liners come down from the coast of Greenland; for the interior of Greenland is a huge ice sheet fringed by mountains and promontories.

But with climate change, the WAP is experiencing rapid regional warming, with fewer days each year of fast ice — letting the icebergs into the shallows more often, where they carve huge gashes through the habitat of the colorful, tentacled invertebrate animals carpeting the sea floor.

A new study shows how huge influxes of fresh water into the North Atlantic Ocean from icebergs calving off North America during the last ice age had an unexpected effect — they increased the production of methane in the tropical wetlands.

If an «ice plug» near the coast of Wilkes Basin melts or breaks off into icebergs, the basin's huge quantities of water will drain into the ocean.

Huge icebergs such as the spawn of Pine Island Glacier often shatter into several pieces, and Bigg's team will track and model the fragments if the chunk collapses.