Sentences with phrase «ice volcanoes when»

Not exact matches

Has to be walking across the top of a volcano with Kit and Ozzy trying to explain why there was ice on there when hot steam was coming out of the ground!

After comparing it with domes on Earth, scientists now believe Ahuna Mons formed when a slushy mix of internal ice and natural antifreeze reached the surface along a duct — just as magma builds volcanoes on our planet.

But when Lavigne's team examined shards of volcanic glass from this volcano, they found that they didn't match the chemical composition of the glass found in polar ice cores, whereas the Samalas glass is a much closer match.

Volcano «dun it» guys do nt know that I have collected Pumice rocks on the shores of Ellesmere Island in the early 80's when there was lots more ice, there is a thing called geological activity, which mind you, can be picked up by US or Canadian Geological surveys, But hey, lets not encourage them to do proper research, its fun to read them so over the top.

When I was in Antarctica in 1995, what the glaciologists were saying about the WAIS [West Antarctic Ice Sheet], is that its changes will mostly likely take a long time, but there was a wild card, in that there are volcanoes under that ice, and if one were to erupt, things could change very quickIce Sheet], is that its changes will mostly likely take a long time, but there was a wild card, in that there are volcanoes under that ice, and if one were to erupt, things could change very quickice, and if one were to erupt, things could change very quickly.

The only monkey wrench is when some perterbation gives snow / ice the upper hand, slowing the water cycle dramatically, which can cause long - lived snowball epsisodes which only end after millions of years of volcanoes belching snow - darkening soot and insulating CO2 gas to tip the scale back towards domination by liquid water instead of frozen water.

Imputities are a main problem in Greenland ice cores where a mix of seasalt / carbonate and acidic dust from Icelandic volcanoes can produce CO2 in situ, but is less of interest in deep inland Antarctic ice cores, except during the deepest times of glacials, when far more dust is deposited.