Sentences with phrase «into cracks in the ice»

The water flows down into cracks in the ice, its weight forcing the cracks wider until large sections of the shelf shatter with surprising quickness.

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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.

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.

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..

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.

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

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

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.

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.

«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.

Photosynthetic life might support «crack» habitats in thin ice, if daily tides force water into the cracks formed by gravitational flexing from Jupiter (more).

In hydrofracturing — the process implicated in the infamous break - up of the Larsen B ice shelf in 2002 — rainfall or meltwater that pools on the glacier's surface drains into crackIn hydrofracturing — the process implicated in the infamous break - up of the Larsen B ice shelf in 2002 — rainfall or meltwater that pools on the glacier's surface drains into crackin the infamous break - up of the Larsen B ice shelf in 2002 — rainfall or meltwater that pools on the glacier's surface drains into crackin 2002 — rainfall or meltwater that pools on the glacier's surface drains into cracks.

As this water moves through rocks, it dissolves salt compounds and pushes through fractures in the overlying ice to form reservoirs closer the moon's surface, where it is expelled into space when the outermost layer of the crust cracks open and the resulting depressurization of these reservoirs causes water vapor and ice particles to shoot out in the observed plumes.

The seas were choked with ice even in midsummer, for tremendous storms would crack the polar ice cap and fling mountainous cliffs into the paths of their wooden vessels.

As developed market investors ignore the cracks in the ice & enjoy increasingly easy gains, they have less & less desire to re-direct their money into exotic & dangerous markets... like Korea!

Or the news from Antarctica this past May, when a crack in an ice shelf grew 11 miles in six days, then kept going; the break now has just three miles to go — by the time you read this, it may already have met the open water, where it will drop into the sea one of the biggest icebergs ever, a process known poetically as «calving.»

After looking at the various cycles and where they might be come Spring and summer and current state of play in the Artic after looking at real time modis etc I have to agree with the likes of geo that the thin, cracked ice will not protect it enough when WAA comes into place June onwards and a breach of 2007 looks very likely.

Hi Sam, here are a few examples of water damage we've had: — refrigerator in an upstairs condo was installed incorrectly and the ice maker gradually leaked over a 3 - day weekend, saturating the floor, insulation, and into the unit below — bottom floor of a duplex was flooded when the sump pumps tripped the breaker in the middle of the night — pipes burst in a vacant unit shortly after we purchased it at foreclosure, saturating the carpet, pad, and drywall — upstairs unit shower had small crack in shower pan which caused the ceiling to gradually saturate with water and tenant was slow to report the issue