Sentences with phrase «large chunks of ice»

Perhaps the ship was going too fast, hit a particularly large chunk of ice at just the right angle in a vulnerable spot.

Ice shelves on the northern Antarctic Peninsula released large chunks of ice into the Southern Ocean as the world warmed up.

In Brunswick, Georgia, large chunks of ice fell on commuters» cars from the old oak trees that frame the streets.

Now large chunks of ice are floating away, and an enormous freshwater lake that floated on top of the 4,000 - year - old shelf has disappeared.

On a clear day, anyone flying over Greenland on the route between North America and Europe can look down and see the bright blue patches of melted water atop the flat, blindingly white expanse of the ice sheet that covers the island, the second largest chunk of ice on Earth.

Larsen B collapsed shortly after its major calving event while the Wilkins ice shelf has continued to shed large chunks of ice since 2008.

We literally have large chunks of ice cascading down the exterior of our entryway!

Explain that icebergs are really large chunks of ice that break off from huge areas of snow and ice and float in the water.

Packed in hay in the hold were large chunks of ice harvested from a frozen Massachusetts lake.

Just last month is resulted in a semi-truck on a state highway being struck by a significantly large chunk of ice throw from a wind turbine in the Bent Tree wind project near Albert Lea.

In a phone interview this week, Staats said he has seen large chunks of ice debris on the ground that had been thrown from wind turbines into the woods.

This rate of sea level rise would continue for centuries, although it would probably be marked periodically by large surges in sea levels as various large chunks of the ice sheets disintegrated.

The quakes seem to be related to increased subglacial melting, causing movement of large chunks of ice.

When ready to serve, fill a punch bowl with one large chunk of ice and pour the liquid over it.

Some large chunks of ice have broken off Antarctica's ice shelves in recent years, although most researchers don't foresee runaway melting there.

At around the same time, a large chunk of the ice shelf just north of the berg disintegrated into much smaller pieces.

Now, analysis of images from the Galileo spacecraft suggest that large chunks of ice may be returning to the ocean beneath, in the first known instance of tectonics on another world.