Sentences with phrase «largest ice body»

The Himalayan glaciers form the world's largest ice body outside of the polar caps.

The Greenland Ice Sheet, the second largest ice body in the world, looks likely to push up sea - levels in 2100 up by 3.5 inches, according to new research by glaciologists from the UK and US, published in the early online edition of the Proceedings of the National Academy of Science.

«East Antarctica is the earth's largest ice body.

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I could go on and elaborate on a number of other disciplines or facts that creationists have to pretend into oblivion to retain their faith, including the Ice Ages, cavemen and early hominids, much of microbiology, paleontology and archeology, continental drift and plate tectonics, even large parts of medical research (medical research on monkeys and mice only works because they share a common ancestor with us and therefore our fundamental cell biology and basic body architecture is identical to theirs).

The sea is just 5 ° north of the Martian equator and would be the first discovery of a large body of water beyond the planet's polar ice caps.

The findings are from the largest study of hominin body sizes, involving 311 specimens dating from earliest upright species of 4.4 m years ago right through to the modern humans that followed the last ice age.

«What is most likely the case is that the parent body [of this family] was water - ice - rich, was broken up, and now the surface of its largest fragment, Themis, has been impact - excavated, revealing the ice that was once deep in a larger object,» says Britney Schmidt of UCLA, who was not affiliated with Campins's study.

Some of the variation the researchers found likely dates back to isolation of different Hermit Thrushes populations by ice sheets during the Pleistocene era, while differences between the two western groups may relate to body size, with larger birds producing lower - frequency songs.

«This shift to earlier weaning age in the time leading up to woolly mammoth extinction provides compelling evidence of hunting pressure and adds to a growing body of life - history data that are inconsistent with the idea that climate changes drove the extinctions of many large ice - age mammals,» said Cherney, who is conducting the work for his doctoral dissertation in the U-M Department of Earth and Environmental Sciences.

The team found traces of hot - spring dwelling bacterial DNA in ice above Antarctica's Lake Vostok, a buried body of water as large as Lake Ontario.

Because the blown - away material is primarily ice, this means that some large Kuiper belt objects could have been built from a small number of really big collisions among increasingly ice - depleted bodies, while others might have been formed from smaller, less powerful collisions that allowed more ice to remain.

First discovered in 2005, the geysers of water ice are believed to originate from a large body of water located beneath the moon's surface ice shell.

The Triton moon orbiting Neptune, for instance, is nearly as large as Earth's moon, though ice volcanoes dispersed throughout the celestial body give off nitrogen frost, giving the moon a smoky appearance.

In addition, «it was decided that, for naming purposes, any Solar System body having (a) a semimajor axis greater than that of Neptune, and (b) an absolute magnitude brighter than H = +1 (magnitude will, for the purpose of naming, be considered to be a plutoid,» so that many large and relatively round Edgeworth - Kuiper ice bodies may eventually be designated as plutoids, including 2004 XR190.

Webb's infrared vision will detect objects in these disks, observing how minuscule bits of ice and rock grow into larger bodies, and perhaps revealing how and where embryonic planets take shape.

«Quaoar, a large body in the Kuiper Belt, has crystalline water ice on its surface, yet conditions there should favour amorphous ice.»

Beyond the orbit of Neptune lies the Kuiper Belt (also referred to as the Edgeworth - Kuiper Belt), a disk of more than 70,000 small bodies larger than 100 km in diameter made of rock and ices, and orbiting the Sun.

Both objects formed among the rocky and icy protoplanets beyond the Solar System's «ice line» now located around 2.7 AUs, but the early development of Jupiter apparently prevented such large protoplanets between the gas giant and planet Mars from agglomerating into even bigger planetary bodies, by sweeping many into pulverizing collisions as well as slinging them into the Sun or Oort Cloud, or even beyond Sol's gravitational reach altogether.

They are capable of breaking through sea ice at least 7 inches thick with their large skulls and powerful bodies.

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Be sure to stop at the Columbia Icefield, North America's largest sub-polar body of ice feeding eight major glaciers.

The first stage has both large bodies of water and ice (much like two of the levels lacking in the port), while the second takes place mainly in a large clock tower and is vaguely reminiscent of the castles in Super Mario World.

There's been open water at the pole before» During the summer of 2000 there was «a large body of ice - free water about 10 miles long and 3 miles wide near the pole» http://query.nytimes.com/gst/fullpage.html?res=9F00E3DD1E31F93AA1575BC0A9669C8B63

A study in Nature Geoscience describes how compiling previously reported measurements made at 733 northern water bodies − from small ponds formed by beavers to large lakes formed by permafrost thaw or ice - sheets — has enabled researchers to estimate emissions over large scales more accurately.

The Antarctic ice - sheets form the largest body of freshwater on the planet, making up 60 % of all water outside the oceans.

The Greenland ice sheet is the planet's second largest body of terrestrial ice.

They measured the organic carbon content of the samples and determined how much of the soil volume was taken up by large bodies of ground ice.

The larger the object, the more forceful is the gravitational pull; such is the case in massive ice sheets, which attracts other bodies, including water.

Dr. Serreze said an examination of satellite images from July 15 showed what looked like a large body of ice - free water about 10 miles long and 3 miles wide near the pole.

There are three groups of tipping elements: melting ice bodies, changing circulations of the ocean and atmosphere, and threatened large - scale ecosystems.

As you'll be well aware, surface air temperatures can easily change by 10 C within a day, for large bodies of ice to melt, or sea water to warm would take centuries.

In a world in which the combustion of fossil fuels is raising levels of greenhouse gases in the atmosphere, to ramp up global warming and trigger climate change, the stability of the world's last and largest pristine body of ice is always in question.

Apart from climate change and humidity, elevation also appears to play a critical role in the lifespan of glaciers, which are large persistent bodies of ice.