Sentences with phrase «lines retreat along»

This feedback could potentially result in the rapid loss of parts of the ice sheet, as grounding lines retreat along troughs and basins that deepen towards the ice sheet's interior.

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But somewhere along the line the party did what many governing parties do and started to retreat from the civil liberties positions it held in opposition.

According to the new study — Fast retreat of Zachariæ Isstrøm, northeast Greenland — published today in Science, the glacier's rate of seaward movement has tripled in velocity even as the pace of ice thinning along its grounding line doubled:

Thwaites Glacier: «Everywhere along the grounding line, the retreat proceeds along clear pathways of retrograde bed.»