Sentences with phrase «ice slabs»

UCI glaciologists have created new maps of this part of Greenland using data from NASA missions and learned why some of the massive, moving ice slabs are more vulnerable to melting than others.

Although Toronto's location on Lake Ontario gives it one of Canada's balmier climates, the surrounding area can seem like one big ice slab in winter.

Chester Arnold's «Ghosts» (2000) is a comic remake of Caspar David Friedrich's «Sea of Ice» (1823 - 25), turning ice slabs into discarded canvases

It might be more possible than we might expect, too, since a growing line of research increasingly shows Europa is not a cold, dead world: Its surface is likely roiling with giant ice slabs that are cracking, breaking up, sinking, and melting.

«Adding salt to an ice slab would be like adding little weights to it because salt is denser than ice,» Johnson said.

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