Sentences with phrase «in ice cracks»

Not exact matches

Still, like the first cracks in the ice of late winter, North Korean leader Kim Jong - un's symbolic step into South Korea may be a harbinger of change.

The change, he concluded, was «attributed largely to atmospheric warming and melt pond penetration of cracks in the ice.»

Many of us who follow climate change news are aware that Greenland's ice is melting away, the Antarctic is cracking, and some Pacific islands are going underwater as seas rise — all because we are pumping more greenhouse gases into the thin layer of atmosphere in which we live.

Spring has started to melt a way through the giant frozen expanse of this archipelago in western Finland, as cracks in the ice turn into rust - coloured pools around wooden jetties in a sign of the coming summer.

That's what the new art and science of bioethics at the dawn of the 21st century had come down to in the end: No cracked ice for Terri Schiavo.»

I associated Ice Cube with a horrifyingly ridiculous speech I heard in a classroom by some handsome full - of - himself black 12th - grader, about how Ice Cube was his hero because he had inspired him to avoid crack and gangs, as if it were some heroic thing for this guy who apparently had pretty middle - class parents to avoid falling into those, and as if Ice Cube had not in fact glamorized the gang life, overt misogyny, etc..

The ice is beginning to crack in another section of the cold, hard surface of modernity.

My Dad use to make ice cream for us when the weather got hot, in an old fashioned crack ice cream freezer.

Make a small well in the middle, crack in the egg and just a little bit of ice cold water.

Holding a large (preferably 1») cube of ice in the palm of your hand, use the back of a stirring spoon to crack it into large pieces; place in a mixing glass.

Plus plenty of orange juice in honor of the great state of Florida, bitters because feelings, and cracked ice to get some aggression out.

The typical careful description of the item read something like: «Four kinds of rum, eloquently blended and crushed pineapple, served over cracked ice with a splash of Fanta and coconut shavings; a dreamy potation to enhance any evening; served plain or a la mode in a fresh casaba husk.»

We saw crevasses — gaping blue - toothed fissures in the ice, awesome cracks that would undo a schizophrenic passerby.

The rear treads had broken through a crack in the sea ice and were sinking into the cold water.

The discovery of waterlogged minerals and a growing ice wall suggests that the dwarf planet could harbor underground liquid water or slushy brine, which has escaped through cracks and craters in the recent past and may still be seeping out today.

«This means that more water can go through the cracks and eat the ice away,» says Adrien Gilbert, a UiO glaciologist who described his team's findings at the Third Pole Science Summit last July in Kunming, China.

The mixture of ammonia and cyanide, normally colorless, had deepened to amber, highlighting a web of cracks in the ice.

The ice - free - corridor theory began to crack in the 1990s, when researchers made a case that humans lived at Monte Verde in Chile more than 14,000 years ago.

Eventually, possibly a few hundred million years after the moon formed, the deepest parts of the ocean froze, swelling to crack surface ice — which may have been 10 km thick or more — just as ice cubes in a freezer often do.

The weight of the ponds forced cracks in the 650 - foot - thick ice.

More than once we had lost one of our four engines, and in 1987 a giant crack became persistently visible along the edge of the Larsen B ice shelf, off the Antarctic Peninsula — making it abundantly clear that an emergency landing would be no gentle touchdown.

Europa in particular beckons because it seems to have a salty ocean beneath its miles - thick crust of cracked ice.

In 2014, a crack that had been slowly growing into the ice shelf for decades suddenly started to spread northwards, creating the nascent iceberg.

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The crack remained dormant for decades, stuck in a section of the ice shelf called a suture zone, an area where glaciers flowing into the ice shelf come together.

As water accumulates in crevasses, its weight will drive the cracks deeper — «like a wedge,» Scambos says — until they reach the bottom of the ice, breaking off a long, skinny Tetris berg.

In order to create a cryovolcano, says O'Brien, the water pressure needs to build up enough to launch up through the shell before the ice cracks and relieves the pressure.

A crack has formed across a section of the Ross Ice Shelf in Antarctica, partially breaking it away from the continent.

Fissures and fractures around Tombaugh Regio and other parts of the planet suggested a subsurface layer of watery slush might be slowly solidifying, breaking up the surface as it expands like ice cubes in a freezer — but other, drier possibilities could also explain such cracks.

Science Ticker Science News Staff Antarctica's Larsen C ice shelf is within days of completely cracking The crack in Antarctica's Larsen C ice shelf (our No. 3 story for 2017) grew 17 kilometers at the end of May (SN Online: 6/1/17).

BREAK UP Last year a crack stretching tens of kilometers rapidly spread across Larsen C, shown here in 2009, one of the largest ice shelves in Antarctica.

In November 2014, Jansen assembled images of Larsen C taken by NASA's Landsat satellites and noticed something unusual: One of the cracks had spread past the suture zone and was more than halfway toward breaking off a large section of the ice shelf.

Even when a prime, rock - free site is found, samples can be contaminated with microbial activity or by modern air that seeps in when temperature changes cause the ice to crack.

The researchers propose that, unlike in Antarctica where surface temperatures remain below freezing all year round, the newly discovered lakes are most likely fed by melting surface water draining through cracks in the ice.

It's not clear why the crack made it through the soft ice, and whether other rifts will follow suit in the coming years.

A massive crack in Antarctica's fourth - biggest ice shelf has surged forward by at least 10 kilometres since early January.

Was it rock grinding on rock, ice groaning over ice, or, perhaps, hot gases and liquid rock forcing their way through cracks in a volcanic complex?

Belugas must regularly surface to breathe, often finding small cracks in the sea ice, and the sharks may strike them there.

On a day in January, dead grasses bristle with ice along the edges of long cracks in the earth, and wisps of gas drift here and there.

Large pools of melt water splotching the ice shelf probably forced open cracks in the ice.

Organisms would either need to hibernate in the ice until the crack reopened or migrate elsewhere.

The researchers say both types of landscape show that cracks or molten regions in the ice have repeatedly exposed the ocean below to the surface.

Those striations are cracks in the ice.

But liquid water in the cracks can drill like a hot knife to the base of an ice shelf, snapping it in two.

The Arctic: Giant cracks larger in total area than the British Isles appeared in August in the Arctic sea ice.

The main argument of the Doubting Thomases has always been that the chemical signs of fossil life in Martian meteorites are really terrestrial contaminants; perhaps microbe - laden water seeped into cracks in the rocks after they landed on the Antarctic ice.

But when black ice is thinner than 1.25 inches, cracks in the central part of the arch can no longer be supported vertically or horizontally.

Europa's smooth, billiard - ball - like surface was covered with cracks, a landscape that eerily resembled Earth's Arctic ice in winter.

«If ice caps and glaciers were to continue to crack and break into pieces, [the amount of] their surface area that is exposed to air would be significantly increased, which could lead to accelerated melting and much - reduced coverage area on the Earth,» Buehler said in a statement.

That's when the cracks are so big that there is plenty of give in the ice and you should not be on the lake.