Sentences with phrase «kilometres deep ice»

Times like this in the past have triggered runaway ice feedbacks that culminate in kilometre deep ice sheets over much of Europe and North America.

Not exact matches

This is the reason why the IceCube Neutrino Observatory has thousands of detectors buried deep within the Antarctic ice, and why the KM3NeT (an acronym for Cubic Kilometre Neutrino Telescope) collaboration wants to construct the world's largest neutrino detector in the depths of the Mediterranean Sea.

The extent of this melt is not in itself significant — just millimetres on top of an ice sheet that is 3.5 kilometres thick at its deepest point, most of which soon refreezes.

Could they possibly be the cause of the melting surface ice, due to a slow diffusion of heat from the ocean floor, many kilometres deep, to the surface waters?

There is enough ice and snow packed deep over 1.7 million square kilometres of Greenland that, were it all to melt, would cause a rise in global sea levels of about six metres.