Sentences with phrase «ice moves by»

«The map points out something fundamentally new: ice moves by slipping along the ground it rests on,» said Thomas Wagner, NASA's cryospheric program scientist.

Not exact matches

If you wait 5 minutes, the secular world will increase the age of the earth by billions of years... and then the ice core dates will be trivial and likely moved as well.

The Colorado captain beat Marc Andre - Fleury with a nifty move in the shootout and the Avalanche kept expansion Vegas from clinching a playoff spot on their home ice by beating the Golden Knights 2 - 1 on Saturday.

Keen not to be outdone by his teammate during the red flag period, Kimi Raikkonen pulled a classic Kimi move when he was spotted not wearing his racing gear and casually chowing down on an ice cream.

Stones» 2015 - 16 began with him agitating for a move to Chelsea that never materialised, then ended with him squeaking into the England squad, not playing a minute in France, and being told by Martin Keown that while all this elegance was very nice, it amounted to nothing more than «icing on the cake.»

The Bishop outlined his concerns about persecution being faced by many religious groups across the globe urged the British Government «to continue to support the United Nations rapporteur in moving beyond the issues of defamation or incitement, important as those issues are — for 45 years the aspiration of drafting a convention on the freedom of religion or belief has been on ice.»

Europe and America are moving away from one another; the Scandinavian countries, once weighed down by enormous sheets of ice, are now rising.

If Ceres is acting like a comet, it must have ice patches that can survive for a long time before being heated by the sun as it moves into a warmer part of its orbit.

These rapidly - moving glaciers protect Antarctic ice from erosion by ocean waters, which otherwise would raise worldwide sea levels by some 50 feet.

What happens when the world moves into a warm, interglacial period isn't certain, but in 2009, a paper published in Science by researchers found that upwelling in the Southern Ocean increased as the last ice age waned, correlated to a rapid rise in atmospheric carbon dioxide.

Frigid Europa may be warmed by a layer under its crust that moves heat and ice to and from its poles — and alien microbes could be hitching a ride

He claims the rocks move en masse, blown by winds when they are frozen into an ice sheet.

The first - ever map of how Antarctica's ice is moving across that continent has been created by researchers at the University of California, Irvine.

Sometimes a moving ice sheet gets blocked by a mountain where high velocity winds ablate the surface, eventually exposing the meteorites.

Pettersson hits a key on his Toughbook and pulls up an aerial view of the region we'll soon visit: the massive Whillans Ice Stream, 3,000 feet thick and 50 miles wide, bounded on either side by slower - moving iIce Stream, 3,000 feet thick and 50 miles wide, bounded on either side by slower - moving iceice.

At the time people were present at Page - Ladson, ice sheets still covered much of North America, so the only way that people could have come to the Americas would have been by boat, hopping down the Pacific coast and then presumably using rivers to move inland.

Where the ice meets the bedrock at the very bottom of the glacier, the meltwater is exposed to phosphorus - rich rocks that are pulverized by the moving glacier.

There are researchers who create robots that move like snakes; some study human movements and functions by making a humanoid robot, and from there they train the robot to play table ice - hockey, dance, and even juggle; some work together to design an electronic wheel chair that can be controlled by the tongue; some are interested in creating a database of human facial expression that can be used in creating animation and facial pattern recognition research.

«More nitrogen has to come from somewhere to resupply both the nitrogen ice that is moving around Pluto's surface in seasonal cycles, and the nitrogen that is escaping off the top of the atmosphere as the result of heating by ultraviolet light from the Sun,» said Singer.

And she describes sobering trends: The projection that Switzerland will lose more than half of its small glaciers in the next 25 years; the substantial retreat of glaciers from the Antarctic, Patagonia, the Himalayas, Greenland and the Arctic; the disappearance of iconic glaciers in Glacier National Park, Montana, or reduction to chunks of ice that no longer move (by definition, a glacier must be massive enough to move).

By tracking changes in crevasses on the glaciers» surfaces, they calculated the speed at which the ice slabs were moving.

They are motivated by the humbling realization that our knowledge of undersea life as a whole is only slightly less sketchy than our knowledge of life under those Antarctic ice shelves: Even where the water is not covered by ice, its sheer volume — not to mention the difficulty of seeing and moving through it — means that it is nearly all aqua incognita.

Over the past 20 years or so, that transition zone has been gradually moving up the ice sheet by about 115 feet every year, on average — another indication that temperatures on the frozen island are warming.

Unlike the hundreds of thousands of asteroids in the main belt of our solar system, which move cleanly along their orbits, active asteroids were discovered several years ago mimicking comets with their tails formed by calm, long lasting ice sublimation.

The long - term stability of the massive ice sheets of Antarctica, which have the potential to raise sea levels by hundreds of meters, has been called into question with the discovery of fast - moving rivers of water sliding beneath their base.

These glaciers typically move via basal sliding or subglacial deformation under wet (warm)- based ice in the accumulation area, but only by internal ice deformation in the colder parts.

The lowest extent on record came during the remarkable summer melt season of 2012, fueled in part by summer storms that moved ice into warm waters.

We believe that the standfirst of this piece, which states that the author «takes issue with some common misconceptions about how ice - sheets move, and doubts many pronouncements about the «collapse» of the planet's ice sheets» misleads the reader by assuming that Ollier's arguments are correct.

For example, the 2012 record minimum came during the remarkable summer melt season of 2012 and was fueled in part by summer storms that moved ice into warm waters.

Global warming induced by increasing CO2 will cause ice to melt and hence sea level to rise as the global volume of ice moves toward the quasi-equilibrium amount that exists for a given global temperature [53].

Greenhouse gasses and Temperature moved in lock - step through the Pleistocene Ice Ages, controlled by Earth's orbit around the Sun (Centre for Ice and Climate, University of Copenhagen).

By now, and if the bruising is starting to look slightly better, you can start to mix up the packs of ice with heat packs instead, and move gently.

A shirtless man (we see his bare chest, abdomen and back) approaches his wife in the kitchen: she is wearing a knee - length robe and she spoons ice cream onto her chest twice, licking it off, then spoons some onto his chest and rubs it down to his groin, the camera pans up and the man pushes down her head (indicating oral sex below the frame) and he gasps; he pulls off her robe to reveal a slip, sits her on a table and spoons ice cream on her inner thigh, licks it off and begins to lick the genital area (it's concealed by her slip and the camera cuts to her gasping face) and he leans her back on a table and thrusts (we see his back and bare buttocks moving) as the scene ends.

After Chunky destroys the ice barrier in the Crystal Caves lobby revealing a lake of lava and a Golden Banana across the lake way, Chunky can use the Tag Barrel to switch to DK and DK can become invincible to retrieve the Golden Banana by using his barrel move: «Strong Kong».

We set about playing some ice breaking games and then moved on to our first activity: a hockey taster session, hosted by Team GB bronze medallist Alex Danson.

And since the radar is moved to the wind screen its not affected by heavy snow or ice build up like it was in the front before.

- as Captain Olimar is making his way home, an asteroid onslaught forces him to land on a nearby planet - Sparklium is the fuel for Olimar's Dolphin III ship - with the ship's fuel depleted, you have to find items on this planet which can be turned into fuel - collect everything from seeds to large scale treasures - you need 30,000 Sparklium to make your way home - you are eventually required to find a lost ship part at the end of the game - levels are more linear and puzzle based, and include specific goals / goodies to collect - move Captain Olimar with the Circle Pad, while all other interactions use the touchscreen - blow your whistle, throw Pikmin and also touch certain objects - worlds are called Sectors, with six areas altogether - find all the treasure and look for new passageways to complete a sector 100 % - passageways can grant you access to secret spots or additional levels highlighted with the letter X - the first world is called Brilliant Garden, which has lush forest environments - Yellow Pikmin can easily reach the upper screen, where you can sometimes collect goodies and pull down vines - there's a level where you use yellow Pikmin as a source to connect two wires - connecting the wires lets you see enemies and platforms that were hidden in the shadows - Winged Pikmin can be flung at high speeds, and they can pick up Olimar and help him descend down into new areas - in a later level, you need to use red Pikmin to stomp out fire and clear the way for you - Rock Pikmin are the strongest ones of the bunch and can break crystals - blue Pikmin can swim and fight well underwater - the maximum amount of Pikmin you can have in a stage is 20 - blow your whistle to call over the correct Pikmin for a task or puzzle - Ravaged Rustworks offers a unique industrial environment where you climb on pipes - Loney Tower has you climbing to the top of a tower without any help of Pikmin, and instead use pipes and Olimar's jetpack - Valley of the Breeze, found in the Leafswirl Lagoon sector, relies complete on Winged Pikmin - Barriers of Flame is in the Sweltering Parchlands sector - here you «lll be forced to improvise with Yellow and Rock Pikmin to get around fire - every world ends with a boss stage - one boss fight puts you up against a Fiery Blowhog, where you use Red Pikmin to pick up / feed bombs to the boss - beating bosses gives you treasures worth 1,000 Sparklium each - supports amiibo in the Splatoon, Super Mario and Animal Crossing lines - amiibo can be scanned in to grant you access to secret spots - these are one room puzzle challenges where you collect a statue - these bonus rooms will also get you 200 Sparklium every time - you are limited by how many amiibo you can summon to each secret spot - one of the treasures you will find is an NES cartridge for Ice Climbers, which carries the name «Revenge Fantasy».

So just imagine what it'd be like if the kitchen floor was covered in slippery ice or separated by two moving lorries.

Fans who are impressed by Kolin's moves should be happy to know that it won't be long until the fighter's story, premium battle, ice - cold move set, and nostalgia skins (as seen above) are to be included with the Street Fighter 5 Season 2 Character pass, which is set to sell for $ 30.

The Ice is Your Playground - New Creative Attack moves give you full control to execute the highlight - reel, jaw - dropping plays seen by young superstars in today's new NHL.

Ice Watch is featured on ArtCOP21 with over 300 other arts events, which are supporting the talks as well as a symposium for cultural policy makers facilitated by COAL, On the Move and Julie's Bicycle.

Regardless, I would posit the worsening winter ice formation is as expected given the poles suffer first and winters warm faster than summers, BUT that this is happening within two years of the EN peak, which was my time line in 2015, one wonders if the combination of warm EN - heated Pacific waters (oceans move slowly) and warm air are a trailing edge of the EN effect OR this is signallibg a phase change driven by that EN, or is just an extreme winter event.

In a heartbreaking move, the Canadian government decided it would rather allow 500 narwhals to be shot one by one at an air hole in the ice, rather than bring in icebreakers to help free the whales.

«Conversely, above normal ice cover was associated with La Nina conditions which are accompanied by the Aleutian low moving westward of normal allowing higher pressure and colder conditions to move over the Bering Sea.

According to experts, the Jakobshavn glacier, one of Greenland's largest, is moving at a faster rate than ever before, losing 20 million tons of ice every day, equivalent to the amount of water used every year by the residents of New York City.

However, I believe we must study the issue (but not by diverting existing research money) because if the ice starts to slide in Greenland or WAIS, we may find this is cheaper than trying to move cities and hundreds of millions of people and animals or building enormous levies.

«To summarize - Using the 60 and 1000 year quasi repetitive patterns in conjunction with the solar data leads straightforwardly to the following reasonable predictions for Global SSTs 1 Continued modest cooling until a more significant temperature drop at about 2016 - 17 2 Possible unusual cold snap 2021 - 22 3 Built in cooling trend until at least 2024 4 Temperature Hadsst3 moving average anomaly 2035 — 0.15 5Temperature Hadsst3 moving average anomaly 2100 — 0.5 6 General Conclusion — by 2100 all the 20th century temperature rise will have been reversed, 7 By 2650 earth could possibly be back to the depths of the little ice agby 2100 all the 20th century temperature rise will have been reversed, 7 By 2650 earth could possibly be back to the depths of the little ice agBy 2650 earth could possibly be back to the depths of the little ice age.

I'm not moved by the Arctic Sea Ice situation.

An announcement by the WWF last week (10 April) caught my eye, as it talked about bears moving from one area to another because of changing ice conditions — as if this was surprising, extraordinary and newsworthy.

The sea ice is affected by wind and ocean currents, which can move and rotate very large areas of ice.