Sentences with phrase «ice bridges between»

The ice bridges between some of Franz - Joseph islands melted.

In the 1960s, ice bridges between Isle Royale and the mainland formed seven out of every 10 winters, the scientists note.

Not exact matches

Instead, these bubble waffle cones serve as a (highly Instagrammable) bridge between the streets of Hong Kong and North America's obsession with ice cream and edible novelty.

In effect, this UAV survey across the ablation zone of the ice sheet perfectly bridges the gap between people on the ground studying what's under their feet in just one part of the ice sheet, and the satellite data that shows what's going on across the entire ice sheet.

A longstanding hypothesis claimed that the first migration took place 12,600 years ago through an ice - free corridor between retreating North American glaciers, via the ice - age Bering Land Bridge between Siberia and Alaska.

What might it have been like to step across Beringia, the bridge between Asia and the Americas, during the last ice age?

This Ice Age migration over a land bridge between Siberia and Alaska is distinct from the arrival of the Inuit and Eskimo, who were latecomers, spreading throughout the Artic beginning about 5,500 years ago.

They maintain that the first Americans were the Clovis people, who crossed into the New World from Asia when a fall in sea levels at the height of the last Ice Age created a land bridge, known as Beringia, between the two continents.

During glaciation, water was taken from the oceans to form the ice at high latitudes, thus global sea level drops by about 120 meters, exposing the continental shelves and forming land - bridges between land - masses for animals to migrate.

Ice Cream Sandwich is expected to bridge the gap between Android phones and tablets which have been running forked versions of Android ever since the release of Honeycomb.

One wave of migration, as every American kid learns in middle school, brought humans across the land bridge between Asia and North America, thus laying the groundwork for the birth of Hollywood, Silicon Valley, and Ben & Jerry's ice cream.

Leaked photos show the four classic Android buttons that are found on phones (and on the Tab 7), so our bet is that the Tab 7.7 won't see Honeycomb, but will instead end up with a custom 2.2 or 2.3, or perhaps it would be the perfect candidate for Ice Cream Sandwich, which Google says is going to bridge the gap between the tablet and the phone versions of Android.

Could Android 4.0 Ice Cream Sandwich be the OS that not only bridges the gap between smartphone and tablet, but also extends to the desktop?

We know that Ice Cream Sandwich will be the bridge between Android Gingerbread and Honeycomb but that hasn't stopped the awesome devs from getting it up and running on phones.

The AMO sets the signal's tempo, while the sea ice bridges communication between ocean and atmosphere.

Perhaps the best known of these journeys took place between 12,000 and 15,000 years ago, when Ice Age hunter - gatherers migrated across the Bering Land Bridge — an isthmus exposed by retreating ocean levels during the Ice Age — into today's Alaska.

Driven primarily by atmospheric stresses, these ice bridges are formed when sufficiently thick ice «jams» during the course of its flow between land masses, resulting in a region of stationary compacted ice that is separated from a region of flowing open water (a polynya) by a static arch.