Sentences with phrase «ice breaking off»

They showed a chunk of ice breaking off this summer on July 30th, 2008 up in northern Canada.

The former VP's film shows dramatic shots of massive chunks of ice breaking off glaciers, but this «calving» of icebergs is a normal, natural process, which has been creating our valleys for millions of years.

The alarm bells start ringing when climatologist Jack Hall (Dennis Quaid) witnesses a major piece of ice breaking off from the coast of Antarctica.

In a presentation Thursday at the Seismology Society of America's annual meeting in Anchorage, West showed that long - ignored data within the state's earthquake records faithfully capture dynamic change occurring above ground: ice breaking off of glaciers and falling into water, the phenomenon known as calving.

On July 17, more than 70 million tons of ice broke off from the Aru glacier in the mountains of western Tibet and tumbled into a valley below, taking the lives of nine nomadic yak herders living there.

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.

But that's not all... watch for wildlife on your 7 - night Alaska cruise as you marvel at glaciers and witness the tremendous slabs of ice break off into the sea.

Marvel at glaciers and witness the amazing spectacle of thunder and spray as tremendous slabs of ice break off and «calve» into the sea.

Cruise through Tracy Arm, with one of Alaska's most dramatic glacier settings; the gorgeous Inside Passage, with its whales, soaring eagles, and more; and Glacier Bay National Park, where you'll witness the huge slabs of ice break off and «calve» into the sea.

When ice breaks off the Pine Island Glacier, he said, more ice can flow in faster from the mountains above — ice that will eventually wind up contributing to sea level rise.

Last week, a city - state sized chunk of ice broke off of Pine Island Glacier (PIG), sending iceberg B - 31 into a bay off West Antarctica.

Ice breaks off the wall of the Perito Moreno Glacier in Argentina on March 10, 2016.

Reports from scientists monitoring the situation indicate that a chuck of ice the size of Manhattan (100 sq. kilometers) is about the fall off, with the suspected cause being at least partially to do with increasing flows of warm water moving up the coast due to the region's changing climate, New Scientist reports.Large chunks of ice break off the Petermann glacier all the time, but with a chunk this size breaking away — this 5 billion tons of ice is about half of the glacier's annual flow — it's unlikely that current rates of snowfall elsewhere on the glacier will be able to make up for it.

Not exact matches

The firm has a philanthropic and employee - centered culture where staffers are privy to company financials and enjoy perks like paid time off for volunteering, impromptu ice cream breaks, and scavenger hunts.

FitzGerald acknowledged that starting a company outside the country's main startup hubs has scared off some potential investors, but he said he's hoping this investment is «breaking the ice a bit.»

While a section of ice may lead in a new direction or to new limits, making the most noise and gaining the most attention, these peninsulas are also the most likely to be those that break off and fall into the sea as icebergs, floating away and disappearing.

When most students are busy sun bathing, breaking out the bikinis, and reveling in the lovely spring weather, we were busy putting on our heaviest winter gear, wiping out on black ice, and freezing our butts off braving the long walk to lecture halls.

If you're anything like me, you can't keep chocolate bars around the house without breaking off a hunk every time you pass by, so by all means double the recipe if you want, just to make sure there's enough for folding into the ice cream later on.

If ozil wonders around the pitch moaning as he has, gets knocked off the ball like he really couldn't give a ****, makes little the effort to keep the team shape i.e. actually runs when he loses the ball (rather that standing looking like a little boy who's just had his ice cream taken off him) or the opposition breaks, then he is as much of a liability as he an asset.

In a perfect world Florida will lose because Boston will go on a tear and Brad the Rat will trip and break his stupid face while skating off the ice at the end of the game on 4/8 (or get hit by a bus, or eaten by a pterodactyl)

He easily warded off a charging Henrik Stenson in the final round without breaking much of a sweat, and hitting ice - in - your - veins shots like this on the 15th when Stenson narrowed the gap to just two.

The second half did not start off particularly exciting, but in the 51st minute, Marquette broke the ice and took a 1 - 0 lead.

The kids ran and fell and broke through the ice and made snowballs and kept veering off to go see what the river looked like every couple of minutes.

A funny story about how you first met or a photo that shows off your offbeat humour is a great way to break the ice and display your unique personality.

The 1 - trillion - ton iceberg, one of the largest icebergs in recorded history, broke off from the Larsen C Ice Shelf, according to multiple reports.

Inch by inch the huge river of ice which we call a glacier creeps toward the sea, and here its projecting end is broken off by the action of the waves.

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

Then in 2008, an area the size of Manhattan broke off the Wilkins Ice Sheet.

The floating platforms of ice that ring the coast are thinning, glaciers are surging toward the sea, meltwater is flowing across the surface, fast - growing moss is turning the once shimmering landscape green and a massive iceberg the size of Delaware broke off into the ocean in July of 2017.

As water accumulates in crevasses, its weight will drive the cracks deeper — «like a wedge,» Scambos says — until they reach the bottom of the ice, breaking off a long, skinny Tetris berg.

They are now heading through relatively ice - free waters to the Larsen A ice shelf, where a giant iceberg broke off in 1995.

While her colleagues are modelling when the next ice shelf will break off or forecasting next year's drought, Gillian is making this information relevant to non-scientists.

Since Larsen C's ice already floats in the ocean, the big break - off won't immediately raise global sea levels.

In November 2014, Jansen assembled images of Larsen C taken by NASA's Landsat satellites and noticed something unusual: One of the cracks had spread past the suture zone and was more than halfway toward breaking off a large section of the ice shelf.

In July, a Delaware - sized iceberg broke off from Antarctica's Larsen C ice shelf (SN: 8/5/17, p. 6).

The crack could break off a massive area of ice and threaten the ice shelf's stability.

The ice will add to risks for ships now it has broken off.

Now, warming seawater intruding underneath has loosened the glaciers» grip on bedrock, speeding their flow toward the sea and causing increasing amounts of ice to break off into the ocean.

They observed three types of ice losses, each with a distinctive and detailed sound signature: the splash of an ice block falling off into the water; the crack of a fragment sliding down the glacier's rough surface; and the soft thud of an underwater ice chunk breaking away and floating up, followed by a secondary impact as it surfaces.

But for most of the previous decade, the Ross Sea had been choked with multiyear ice after a giant chunk of the Ross Ice Shelf broke oice after a giant chunk of the Ross Ice Shelf broke oIce Shelf broke off.

Some large chunks of ice have broken off Antarctica's ice shelves in recent years, although most researchers don't foresee runaway melting there.

Boulders of water ice and methane debris (red) that have broken off hills surrounding the heart have collected at the boundaries of the cells.

Slabs continued to calve and break up throughout the next 10 days; by March 8 the Wilkins ice shelf, comprising some 5,000 square miles of floating ice off the coast of the Antarctic Peninsula, had lost 160 square miles of ice to the Pacific Ocean.

At its calving front, where the glacier effectively ends as it breaks off into icebergs, some of the ice melts while the rest is pushed out, floating into the ocean.

On the Larsen C Ice Shelf, a massive iceberg has begun to break off from the rest.

When, in the foreseeable future, a tabular iceberg nearly seven times the size of Berlin breaks off the Larsen C Ice Shelf in the Antarctic, it will begin a journey, the course of which climate researchers at the Alfred Wegener Institute Helmholtz Centre for Polar and Marine Research (AWI) can accurately predict.

A 100 - meter - wide, kilometers - long rift in Antarctica's Larsen C ice shelf could soon break off a 5,000 - square - kilometer chunk of ice into the ocean, scientists warn.

The prospect of the Arctic sea - ice melting completely; ice - sheets breaking off Antarctica; record temperatures — I'm a complete numbers geek.

Luftwerk used the worldwide attention paid to the Larsen C ice shelf in Antarctica — which broke off into the Weddell Sea in July 2017 — as a starting point for their project.

The Larsen B ice shelf in 2002 and the Wilkins ice shelf in 2008 both saw huge icebergs break off due largely to warming waters.