Sentences with phrase «long ice tongue»

The obstacles to get to the ice shelf were extreme, but the science goal was simple: to measure how fast the sea was melting the 37 - mile long ice tongue from underneath by drilling through the ice shelf.

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The glacier was renowned for an exposed ice tongue poking 40 kilometres out from the Antarctic continent but in early 2010 a 97 - kilometre long iceberg smashed into Mertz, resulting in the calving of a massive chunk of the ice tongue.

Humboldt Glacier is much different as the lack of confining topography prevents the development of the strong ice stream flow we see on Jakobshavn Glacier or the weaker ice stream flow of Petermann Glacier and its subsequent long floating tongue.

Though the formation of the 700 square - kilometer iceberg could be a purely natural event — the result of a floating ice tongue growing too long and losing its balance on the sea — some scientists suspect that changes in Pine Island Glacier are due to changing conditions below.

So celebrate the solstice in whichever way you see fit and if are in that group of people who pays the price of enjoying your frozen treat with a stabbing pain that lasts for a very long 20 - 30 seconds, remember to curl your tongue and that even ice cream can not escape legal implications.