Sentences with phrase «leading edge of the glacier»

In The Christian Century for October 6, 1971, I hazarded some guesses about «The Shape of the Coming Renewal,» suggesting that the growing awakening among young people was only the leading edge of a glacier that would continue to move in steadily until it dominated the American ecclesiastical landscape.

Research published last spring in Nature Climate Change made a convincing case that that trek is now engaged in a 40 km retreat, a movement that will only continue to accelerate as warm water laps at the shallow leading edge of the glacier and as the glacier very slowly increases its angle of descent off of the continent's land shelf.

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The exhibition includes one of Thiel's largest works to date, a 30 - foot long, five - panel photograph of the leading edge of the Perito Moreno glacier in Los Glaciares National Park, which is part of the Southern Patagonian Ice Field, the third largest ice cap in the world.

«Glaciers, more formidable around 1600, reached the houses of villages on the lower slopes and crushed them... Small processions of villagers, led by a priest or even a bishop, went to the edge of a glacier and prayed that it might halt.