Sentences with phrase «line retreats into»

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After the leaders planted a symbolic tree on the Military Demarcation Line, the pair retreated into the woods for their private talks.

The height of these cliffs made them unstable, triggering the release of thousands of icebergs into Pine Island Bay, and causing the glacier to retreat rapidly until its grounding line reached a restabilising point in shallower water.

The grounding line then retreats down slope into thicker ice that, in turn, drives further increases in outflow.

Cait has managed to transform her tight - on - space studio into a stylish retreat filled with clean lines, bright colors, and fun accents.

The brackets that enclose the film's title in its credit sequence and poster design reinforce the sense of enclosure provided in the first and last scenes: in the former, the black Mercedes pulls into a garage whose door closes behind it; in the latter, by this time living at a New Age retreat in a stretch of New Mexico desert that looks uncannily like southern California, Carol shuts herself in a hermetic, porcelain - lined igloo.

Vikander and Harington nearly, but not quite, stealing a kiss when their chaperone isn't looking; a father retreating quietly in a train station to sob after sending his son to the front; a conversation in unsubtitled German with a dying soldier; the lurch in the stomach when you're summoned away, fearing that bad news has arrived; and the desire to sink feet into the mud to remember of being on the front lines.

For straight - line speed, a wing can either retreat into the bodywork — minimizing drag — or extend to give downforce in the corners.

Inside the 160 rooms and suites, sophisticated colors, clean lines and unique textures blend together seamlessly with the tower's stunning architecture and natural light to create an atmosphere of calm serenity where guests can retreat into a world of minimalist elegance.

He became even more enthusiastic, retreating into the small hallway lined with bookcases from floor to ceiling.

Recessions and reliefs appear to shift, calibrated lines dissolve into irregular forms — the viewer alternately perceives physical facture and optical phenomena as they approach and retreat from the surface.

First, as glaciers melt sea level rises and grounding lines retreat speeding the remaining glaciers» advance into the sea.

This would suggest to me that the glacier grounding line will retreat into the deeper basin upglacier of the current grounding line.

None of the sea - ice specialists I've interviewed since 2000 on Arctic trends ever predicted a straight - line path to an open - water Arctic, but quite a few have stressed the longstanding idea that as white ice retreats, solar energy that would have been reflected back into space is absorbed by the dark sea, with that heat then melting existing ice and shortening the winter frozen season.

Marine ice sheet instability occurs when sub-shelf melt rate is large enough to force the ice sheet grounding line to retreat into an area where the ice is grounded below sea level on an inward - sloping bedrock, then it can become unstable.

For example, a study at Scripps Institute of Oceanography showed that just the retreat of sea ice alone is equivalent to adding a quarter to the amount of anthropogenic CO2 release into the atmosphere and including the snow line retreat, it adds one - half.

When the grounding line retreats from its current position on a ridge into the valley, the rim of the ice facing the ocean becomes higher than before.

As I wrote above, it is precisely that scientific work that informs and energizes the urgent desire for solutions that appears again and again in the more - or-less off - topic posts here — and that also inspires in some cases a retreat into despair, as the news from the front lines of climate science continues to rapidly worsen.