Sentences with phrase «ice broke from»

Almost exactly a year ago, a 251 - square - kilometer sheet of ice broke from the Petermann Glacier in Greenland and started slowly drifting into the open ocean.

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This helps break the ice and makes your business stand out from the crowd.

RICHMOND, Virginia — President Donald Trump is the ice - breaker ship that broke through 30 years of thick permafrost, according to former Trump administration official Dr. Sebastian Gorka, who called on 200 grassroots activists to be the flotilla that keeps the ice from reforming behind him.

It is too long to quote in full here, but one has only to think of a few of the powerful and particular images that situate the joy of the «swinger of birches» within the real and fallen world: the ice like broken glass, the trees bent by weather, the face that «burns and tickles with the cobwebs / Broken across it,» and the eye watering «From a twig's having lashed across it open.&broken glass, the trees bent by weather, the face that «burns and tickles with the cobwebs / Broken across it,» and the eye watering «From a twig's having lashed across it open.&Broken across it,» and the eye watering «From a twig's having lashed across it open.»

Usually Jenny Lawson breaks the ice with a bizarre, profanity - laced story about a mummified bat (or peasant or ferret); then Scot McKnight jumps in with his thoughts on the latest biblical scholarship, followed by an update from NPR on today's news.

I had my three year old home from preschool for the winter break and a few days ago she decided she wanted to make ice cream.

Pour contents into a 8 x 12 ″, or similarly sized, pan / Carefully place in a secure, level spot in the freezer / Freeze for 1 — 2 hours / Remove from freezer and scrape, smash and stir mixture with a fork, breaking into small icey bits / Return to the freezer and repeat this process three more times, every 30 minutes / Granita should be done at this point, coarse bits of ice, about like a snow cone / Place granita in container, cover and freeze until ready to use.

Gooey and toffee - like, but with a tang from the balsamic or raspberry vinegar, these roasted figs make a beautiful dessert, cosied up with a quenelle of crème fraiche or soft goats cheese; dolloped onto ice cream (or indeed stirred into ice cream, with perhaps some freshly made pistachio praline, and refrozen); nestled into a sweetcrust pastry along with fresh, broken cobnuts or hazelnuts and slices of ripest pear.

It has been a while but I took a break from blogging and now, slowly coming back and sharing a beautiful recipe for lemon and basil ice cream.

Last January, says Sheppard, he attended a heated meeting with Clark and Kane that shattered the quiet of Bryn Mawr Hospital, where Kane was recovering from a broken leg (he slipped on the ice New Year's Day).

Maybe they are afraid to approach other moms normally and knowing from the get go that being an EcoMom is something you already have in common, breaks the ice!

«We started parenting sessions and used materials from Fathers Direct to break the ice.

With many sanctuaries still showing the effects from months of arctic temperatures, ice, and record - breaking snowfalls, participants can be expected to match, if not surpass, the totals from the 2014 cleanup.

Some parents give their child a gift from the baby to help break the ice at that first meeting.

Tory MP Graham Stuart broke his pelvis, punctured his right lung and fractured several ribs — after slipping on ice just feet from a restaurant on the last day of his skiing holiday.

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.

A miles - wide ice floe broke away Saturday from Lake Erie's shoreline, trapping more than 130 fishermen, some for as long as four hours.

Providing some icing was, of course, Ed Balls, who as party guests were leaving leapt to his feet and asked the prime minister — in a point of order — to clarify his assertion «that all married couples that are basic rate taxpayers would benefit» from the marriage tax break.

NSF: A $ 113 million increase proposed for the agency's $ 4.2 billion research budget hides a $ 48 million transfer from the U.S. Coast Guard to take on the annual cost of breaking ice to keep the shipping lanes open in the Antarctic.

When he and his colleague Florenza Micheli analyzed records from the Ice Classic, they found that the ice now breaks an average of 5.5 days earlier than it did in 19Ice Classic, they found that the ice now breaks an average of 5.5 days earlier than it did in 19ice now breaks an average of 5.5 days earlier than it did in 1917.

To their surprise, the ice bubbled like boiling water at temperatures between -210 C / -346 F and -120 C / -184 F. Analysis of the gas showed it to be hydrogen molecules, which the researchers believe were formed from methanol and ammonia broken up by UV irradiation.

This isn't the first time ice sheets have calved from the Greenland mainland, but it's one of the largest breaks.

McClintock's excellent survey of the state of Antarctica moves nimbly from the break - up of the sea ice to the invasion of king crabs and the gradual disappearance of Adélie penguins.

A crack has formed across a section of the Ross Ice Shelf in Antarctica, partially breaking it away from the continent.

Eventually, the floating ice shelf in front of the glaciers «broke up», which caused them to retreat onto land sloping downward from the grounding lines to the interior of the ice sheet.

Thousands of marks on the Antarctic seafloor, caused by icebergs which broke free from glaciers more than ten thousand years ago, show how part of the Antarctic Ice Sheet retreated rapidly at the end of the last ice age as it balanced precariously on sloping ground and became unstabIce Sheet retreated rapidly at the end of the last ice age as it balanced precariously on sloping ground and became unstabice age as it balanced precariously on sloping ground and became unstable.

In its heyday, it went on expeditions to the poles: while the vessel's strengthened bow brushed aside broken ice, tourists snapped gleaming icebergs from the observation deck or sipped drinks in the lounge.

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

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.

As this happens, the floating ice shelf in front of it also lengthens and thins, increasing its chances of breaking and allowing even more ice to flow out from behind it.

A closer view of Larsen B (above) from March 7, 2002, reveals that what looks like a solid sheet of ice in the wider view is actually composed of thousands of icebergs that have broken free.

«The ice shelf generally breaks at points that are between a half and full thickness of the ice sheet from the edge,» summarises Christmann.

Scientists theorize the bright objects are pieces of dry ice that have broken away from points higher on the slope.

We still don't know enough about tar sand oil, or bitumen, which takes longer to break down due to its high viscosity, but doesn't spread, we also don't know much about the behavior of oil from a blowout, such as the Deepwater Horizon BP blowout, and we know little of how crude oil behaves in the Arctic Ocean, where there is ice, or how to remediate it,» said Michel Boufadel, director of NJIT's Center for Natural Resources Development and Protection and a member of the panel of experts charged with evaluating the impact of spills in Northern waters.

Thinner ice also breaks up more easily, and the thinner the ice, the faster it seems to be exported from the Arctic to the Atlantic, says Rune Graversen of the Royal Netherlands Meteorological Institute.

The breaking apart of the ice shelf in the channels is similar to removing an ice jam from a river.

Not far from a range of giant ice mountains on Pluto lies a vast stretch of icy plains whose surface is broken into cell - like blocks by snaking troughs, new photos by NASA's New Horizons spacecraft reveal.

Either the nucleus now resembles a baked Alaska — a burnt crust insulating a core of ice and preventing it from releasing gas that would glow — or, more likely, it has broken up and we are just seeing a fragment.

First of all, less sea ice is forming in the region, and secondly, oceanographic recordings from the continental shelf break confirm that the warm water masses are already moving closer and closer to the ice shelf in pulses,» says Dr Hartmut Hellmer, an oceanographer at the AWI and first author of the study.

Breaking ice for one another, they jointly search for data that often can not be shared from one ship to the next.

We had just driven onto the lake from the shore near Listvyanka when Heinze asked, «When does the ice start breaking?»

After large icebergs broke away from nearby ice shelves in recent decades, they collapsed and the land ice they were buttressing tumbled into the sea.

Tidal forces regularly break the ice, allowing water from the depths to well onto the surface, leaving stains that provide evidence of the ocean's chemistry.

Here on Earth, but also in remote and unfamiliar territory, an iceberg the size of Delaware broke away from the fourth largest ice shelf in Antarctica, earning our No. 3 spotand offering scientists a chance to study newly forming ecosystems.

Sometimes the changes are visible and dramatic — as when a Manhattan - sized iceberg breaks away from an ice shelf.

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

Scientists have been drilling through the ice and are now just 100 feet away from breaking into the third largest lake on the planet.

Emerging from a winter that has had staggeringly warm Arctic temperatures, scientists monitoring the vast Greenland ice sheet announced Tuesday that it is experiencing a record - breaking level of melt for so early in the season.

One of the largest icebergs ever recorded broke off from an ice shelf in Antarctica, British scientists announced Wednesday.

Stay away from the ice cream and the trendy break - up novels and start taking action.