Sentences with phrase «ice sheet edge»
Increasingly warming seawater sloshed exposed rocks about 161 kilometers (100 miles) inland of the current ice sheet edge.
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«Most ice cores are collected from the middle of the ice sheet where it rarely ever melts, or on the ice sheet edge where the meltwater flows into the ocean.
«Most ice cores are collected from the middle of the ice sheet where it rarely ever melts, or on the ice sheet edge where the meltwater flows into the ocean,» Karina Graeter, the lead author of the study as a graduate student in Dartmouth's Department of Earth Sciences, said in a statement.
As a storm approaches an ice sheet, it encounters the steep slopes of the ice sheet edges, and the air is lifted and cooled.
This small outlet glacier south of Jakobshavn Isbrae is moving ice from the interior of the ice sheet out to the ice sheet edge (top right), where the ice calves off into the ocean.
«Most ice cores are collected from the middle of the ice sheet where it rarely ever melts, or on the ice sheet edge where the meltwater flows into the ocean.