Sentences with phrase «kilometer of ice into»

The question relates to a major collapse of the sheet sufficient to free many cubic kilometers of ice into the sea where it would melt more rapidly.

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Caves extend up to 70 feet deep, with some retaining ice and snow well into the middle of summer, while the edge of the limestone cliffs at the Scenic Caves has views of the Georgian Bay and countryside that span 10,000 kilometers.

Almost exactly a year ago, a 251 - square - kilometer sheet of ice broke from the Petermann Glacier in Greenland and started slowly drifting into the open ocean.

Its 500 - meter by 120 - meter array of 677 detectors in glass globes dangle like love beads from electrical cables 1.5 kilometers down into South Pole ice.

This iceberg, named UK211, had survived for three years since calving off the Larsen C ice shelf 385 kilometers south, but now it was drifting into warm climates north of the peninsula.

Scientists have drilled into one of the most isolated depths in all of the world's oceans: a hidden shore of Antarctica that sits under 740 meters of ice, hundreds of kilometers in from the sea edge of a major Antarctic ice shelf.

As a result of such breakups, more than 150 cubic kilometers of glacial ice has slid off land into the ocean.

AMANDA receivers are sunk as deep as 1.5 kilometers into antarctic ice to filter out all sources of radiation but neutrinos.

The project, dubbed IceCube, will sink 4,800 photomultipliers — sensors that detect light — into a billion tons of ice, reaching one mile (2.4 kilometers) below the Antarctic surface.

It's not a new phenomenon; this «thumb» of Antarctica, which juts out into the stormy Southern Ocean, has lost more than 28,000 square kilometers of floating ice — almost as large as Massachusetts — over the past half - century.

With light sensors sunk kilometers deep into the ice sheet, IceCube's detector is so huge that it could pick up traces of a million neutrinos from a Milky Way supernova.

Gas giants are probably born further out, beyond some 400 million kilometers, where ice crystals can develop and accumulate into planetary cores that are massive enough to attract large amounts of gas from the disk.

Hawkings and his collaborators spent three months in 2012 and 2013 gathering water samples and measuring the flow of water from the 600 - square - kilometer (230 - square - mile) Leverett Glacier and the smaller, 36 - square - kilometer (14 - square - mile) Kiattuut Sermiat Glacier in Greenland as part of a Natural Environment Research Council - funded project to understand how much phosphorus, in various forms, was escaping from the ice sheet over time and draining into the sea.

Ice - clad moon of Jupiter blasts jets hundreds of kilometers into the sky, possibly from subsurface ocean

Surprise find The team's actual mission was to survey ocean currents near the Ross Ice Shelf, a slab of ice extending more than 600 miles (970 kilometers) northward from the grounding zone of the West Antarctic Ice Sheet into the Ross Sea, to model the behavior of a drill string, a length of pipe extending to the seafloor which delivers drilling fluids and retrieves sediment samplIce Shelf, a slab of ice extending more than 600 miles (970 kilometers) northward from the grounding zone of the West Antarctic Ice Sheet into the Ross Sea, to model the behavior of a drill string, a length of pipe extending to the seafloor which delivers drilling fluids and retrieves sediment samplice extending more than 600 miles (970 kilometers) northward from the grounding zone of the West Antarctic Ice Sheet into the Ross Sea, to model the behavior of a drill string, a length of pipe extending to the seafloor which delivers drilling fluids and retrieves sediment samplIce Sheet into the Ross Sea, to model the behavior of a drill string, a length of pipe extending to the seafloor which delivers drilling fluids and retrieves sediment samples.

Frigid water is seeping into and out of a vast lake beneath 4 kilometers of ice in Antarctica.

With 86 strings of detectors reaching down 2.5 kilometers into Antarctic ice, the IceCube observatory is now finished

For instance, Ekström says, in several cases major landslides have fallen upon glaciers and then scooted nearly friction - free across several kilometers of ice — which tends to muffle seismic vibrations until the speeding material slams into the opposite side of the valley.

As wind and rain erode the mountain range, massive rivers carry more than a billion tons of sediment into the Bay of Bengal each year; in some places, the layer deposited since the most recent ice age is more than one kilometer thick.

Increased ice flow in this region is particularly troubling, Khan said, because the northeast ice stream stretches more than 600 kilometers (about 373 miles) into the center of the ice sheet, where it connects with the heart of Greenland's ice reservoir.

Paradoxically, both phenomena are likely linked: When sea - ice North of Scandinavia and Russia melts, the uncovered ocean releases more warmth into the atmosphere and this can impact the atmosphere up to about 30 kilometers height in the stratosphere disturbing the polar vortex.

The Southern Hemisphere's unrelenting winds and frigid air froze ocean water into 7.6 million square miles (19.7 million square kilometers) of Antarctic sea ice this winter, according to the National Snow and Ice Data Center (NSIDice this winter, according to the National Snow and Ice Data Center (NSIDIce Data Center (NSIDC).

A 100 - meter - wide, kilometers - long rift in Antarctica's Larsen C ice shelf could soon break off a 5,000 - square - kilometer chunk of ice into the ocean, scientists warn.

If the craft were to crash on the surface of a cold moon like Enceladus, the RTGs could easily thaw a path through tens of kilometers of ice, and plop down into the liquid water ocean beneath, though this might take a long time.

Instead of drilling into ice, the new cubic kilometer neutrino telescope will sit on the seafloor, and aim to compliment IceCube in the collective hunt for high energy neutrinos.

Dividing 3 meters into the volume of ice that our volcano melted, we find that it would cover an area of just under 30 billion meters square, or a little less than 30 thousand square kilometers.

In the spring of 2009, the team of researchers drilled through the ice on the surface and into the bottom of Lake El» gygytgyn, which lies around 62 miles (100 kilometers) north of the Arctic Circle.

What we do not see in this image, but what clearly happened, was that an ice mass hundreds of meters tall and covering an area of about 12.5 square kilometers was shattered into flinders as warming ocean waters invaded the Greenland Ice Sheice mass hundreds of meters tall and covering an area of about 12.5 square kilometers was shattered into flinders as warming ocean waters invaded the Greenland Ice SheIce Sheet.

The remaining estimates fall into «high» and «low» extent groupings: the low extent group with a range of 4.2 to 4.7 million square kilometers, representing a continued loss of sea ice extent compared to 2008/2009, and the high extent group of 5.4 to 5.7 million square kilometers, suggesting a return to the long - term trend for summer sea ice loss.

Today, a huge rift has nearly bisected a large frontal section of the Larsen C Ice shelf — an ice system many times the size of its now deceased companions Larsen A and Larsen B. And during December — a period when Antarctica was warming into Austral Summer — this massive crack grew by 18 kilometeIce shelf — an ice system many times the size of its now deceased companions Larsen A and Larsen B. And during December — a period when Antarctica was warming into Austral Summer — this massive crack grew by 18 kilometeice system many times the size of its now deceased companions Larsen A and Larsen B. And during December — a period when Antarctica was warming into Austral Summer — this massive crack grew by 18 kilometers.

Only a detailed analysis of buoy data and field observations will help resolve this question, but an ice mass balance buoy placed on 1.4 meter thick first - year ice north of Barrow in April has managed to survive into the late melt season, drifting 1,000 kilometers to the North over the course of the summer.

The ice mass itself moves at about four kilometers per year into the ocean, a dramatic acceleration of the glacier's natural role as an outlet channel for the Antarctic ice sheet.