Sentences with phrase «in glacial moraines»

(6) The most prominent oscillation — already noticed in glacial moraines in Scandinavia around the turn of the century — had begun with a rise in temperature, named the Allerød warm period.

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Take in the lake from 400 feet high on a glacial moraine at Pyramid Point or drive through the seven - mile Pierce Stocking Scenic Drive to see the colors change with the seasons surrounding the lake.

The technique, Fujita says, could be used in the initial screening of thousands of large glacial lakes in the Himalayas and continuous monitoring of topographical changes around the lakes as they expand and new moraine dams develop.

These mountains have the most extensive glacial and moraine systems in Africa.

Geological evidence for ice ages comes in various forms, including rock scouring and scratching, glacial moraines, drumlins, valley cutting, and the deposition of till or tillites and glacial erratics.

Here, a moraine ridge of densified glacial rock material obviously resisted further densification upon impact, in contrast with the otherwise highly porous Quaternary fluvial sediments.

In the east of Utrecht lies the Utrechtse Heuvelrug, a chain of hills left as lateral moraine by tongues of glacial ice after the Saline glaciation that preceded the last ice age.

Glacial processes of erosion, transport and deposition, and landscape features in glaciated areas, including cirques / corries, lakes, pyramidal peaks / horns, arêtes, glacial troughs; lateral, medial and terminal moraine and eGlacial processes of erosion, transport and deposition, and landscape features in glaciated areas, including cirques / corries, lakes, pyramidal peaks / horns, arêtes, glacial troughs; lateral, medial and terminal moraine and eglacial troughs; lateral, medial and terminal moraine and erratics

Along a route dubbed by some as «the steps to heaven,» every bend in the trail provides another photo opportunity — beautiful forests, Sherpa villages, glacial moraines, and foothills.

Lake Garda in central northern Italy has long been regarded as a go - to destination by those who appreciate fresh air, tranquillity and outstanding natural beauty and these are found in abundance in the region of the villages of San Felice de Benaco and Portese, situated on hilly glacial moraine on the western shore of the lake.

This rich texture is translated into the viscous, tactile ripples of white paint, which spread like a glacial moraine across the canvas in Struktur (2).

About 15 Ka ago the ice front was receding north there, so I'm guessing your trees grow on glacial moraine or outwash in thin soil.

For example, glacial terminal moraines demonstrate local LIA in many parts of the world, both hemispheres.

Examples of this type of data include tree ring width and density measurements, fossilized plant remains, insect and pollen frequencies in sediments, moraines and other glacial deposits, marine organism fossils, and the isotope ratios of various elements.

Glaciation left an extensive geologic record on the continents in the form of predominantly unconsolidated tills and glacial moraines, which in North America extend in a line as far south as Kansas, Illinois, Ohio, and Long Island, New York, and on the ocean floor in the form of ice - rafted detritus dropped from calving icebergs.

Were the glacial lakes at the foot of Everest, and elsewhere in the Himalaya, to breach their moraines, it could have catastrophic consequences for the sherpa people living down the valley.