Sentences with phrase «land glaciers connected»
When the ice shelf Larsen B collapsed in 2002, the speed at which the on - land glaciers connected to it moved to the sea increased by as much as a factor of eight.
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Ask any schoolkid how the first people came to the Americas, and you might get some version of the following: They crossed a spit of land connecting Alaska and Siberia and made their way south between melting glaciers at the end of the last ice age.
They are also studying the land - based glaciers that had been connected to the ice shelf.
Among the most comprehensive surveys ever done, it looked at floating glacier - ice shelves, which are connected to the land - based glacier from which they flowed, and tidewater glaciers that rest on land and break off into the ocean when they reach the water.
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