Sentences with phrase «interior of the ice sheet»
The phrase "interior of the ice sheet" refers to the part or area inside a large mass of ice, such as a glacier or polar ice sheet. It signifies the region that is further away from the edges or boundaries of the ice sheet. Full definition
Eventually, the floating ice shelf in front of the glaciers «broke up», which caused them to retreat onto land sloping downward from the grounding lines to the interior of the ice sheet.
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«It was the biggest collapse of its kind up to that point, and it served to demonstrate how ice shelves regulate the movement of ice from the interior of the ice sheet to the ocean.»
«We believed this was a good time to look to the interior of the ice sheet.
Many of the discovered valleys also stretch farther into the interior of the ice sheet than previous measurements.
The new result focuses on ice loss due to a major retreat of an outlet glacier connected to a long «river» of ice — known as an ice stream — that drains ice from the interior of the ice sheet.
Bevis agreed: «The fact that this ice loss is associated with a major ice stream that channels ice from deep in the interior of the ice sheet does add some additional concern about what might happen.»
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.
Flow speed has increased for some Greenland and Antarctic outlet glaciers, which drain ice from the interior of the ice sheets.