Sentences with phrase «lower-most edges of the glaciers»

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.

As melting ice from these glaciers formed streams and rivers along the edge of the glaciers, thick sequences of sand and gravels were deposited.

The study shows that it's plausible, even if Mars was generally frozen over, that peak daily temperatures in summer might sneak above freezing just enough to cause melting at the edges of glaciers.

Icebergs that have calved off the edge of the glacier are visible floating out to sea — but so are cracks hundreds of kilometers inland from Jakobshavn, on what would otherwise be a flat expanse of ice.

In 2007, researchers were collecting long - frozen plant samples from the receding edges of the glacier when they noticed some bryophytes — plants which include mosses and mosslike liverworts — sprouting new parts (as seen in the main image).

The coastline itself — the edge of the glacier ice — appears as a faint white line.

Ice shelves (the floating front edges of glaciers that extend tens to hundreds of miles offshore) melt more because of contact with ocean water below them than they do because of sunlight.

Professor Poinar continues, «Mammoths were much better at adapting to new habitats than we first thought — we suspect that subgroups of mammoths evolved to deal with local conditions, but maintained genetic continuity by encountering and potentially interbreeding with each other where their two different habitats met, such as at the edge of glaciers and ice sheets.»

The highlighted area shows a dense concentration of crevasses along one edge of the glacier.

Some are far away, like the swirling blue meltwater that laps the edges of a glacier, while others lurk just under our feet, like an ant waving a leaf like a victory banner.

in a SciAm Item for the fact that a series of under - the - icesheet Volcanoes were causing the emmisions of large quantities of water from under the edge of the glaciers, where they meet the sea, and the fact that these eruptions were causing rapid advances in the sheets march toward the sea.

In the state of running water below the glacier, it might readily, as Geikie states, absorb heat from the underlying soil sufficient to retain its liquid form, as the overlying weight gradually lessened at the edge of the glacier.

Each measurement transect on Columbia Glacier begins and ends at a fixed location at the edge of the glacier.

Each network is spatially fixed with respect to the adjacent bedrock edges of the glacier and using differential GPS where necessary.

The Aru glaciers probably straddle both categories, with the lower-most edges of the glaciers frozen but the central portion of its base thawed.

It is showing the approximate former locations of the glacier margin (aka «the toe»; aka where the edge of the glacier used to be) measured at different points in time.

«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.

Now that the glaciers have melted, the land beneath where they were located is now rising, while the land at where the edges of the glaciers were located is sinking, i.e., subsiding.

Glaciers during the last ice age were so thick and heavy that their weight caused the land immediately beneath them to sink, while the land at the edges of the glaciers rose.

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.

Not exact matches

Or failing that and not wanting to become unstoppable, glacier - hopping alpinists, they can hike with their kids up to the glacier overlooks and yell at them when they peer over the edge of the overlooks.

Larsen C is approximately 350m thick and floats on the seas at the edge of West Antarctica, holding back the flow of glaciers that feed into it.

Individual chunks seen in the image range from 1 to several kilometers long, and chains of the bergs seem to mark the edges of nitrogen glaciers flowing from the icy highlands onto a broad plain.

The moment of transition from the Ediacaran to the Cambrian world is recorded in a series of stone outcrops rounded by ancient glaciers on the south edge of Newfoundland.

Break up of a floating «ice shelf» in front of the glacier left tall ice «cliffs» at its edge.

RETREATING ICE Jakobshavn Glacier in western Greenland (its front edge, where ice is calving into the ocean, shown here in 2012) is one of the world's fastest - shrinking glaciers.

But the thing is, [the ice sheet] kind of stops right there at the edge [of South America], especially down around Cape Horn and those islands down there — those were not glaciated at last glacier maximum.

In the last few decades, glaciers at the edge of the icy continent of Antarctica have been thinning, and research has shown the rate of thinning has accelerated and contributed significantly to sea level rise.

Batbaatar and co-author Alan Gillespie, a UW research professor emeritus in Earth and Space Sciences, collected samples from moraines, which are long ridges of rocky debris dropped at a glacier's edge.

Himalayan glaciers are melting and retreating at their edges because of global warming.

Researchers at the University of Washington and the University of Edinburgh used data from the European Space Agency's CryoSat - 2 to identify a sudden drainage of large pools below Thwaites Glacier, one of two fast - moving glaciers at the edge of the ice sheet.

Thwaites Glacier on the edge of West Antarctica is one of the planet's fastest - moving glaciers.

Parallel ridges toward the bottom of the mountain appear to be drop moraines — piles of rubble deposited at the edges of a receding glacier.

The valleys and ridges that were etched into Buzzards Bay's coastlines by the expansion and retreat of glaciers manifest as a string of small bays around the edges of a greater one.

Schematic cartoon of a glacier flowing into an ice shelf, showing the grounding line and calving at the ice cliff at the edge of the ice shelf.

The Larsen C ice shelf is 217 miles thick and sits at the edge of West Antarctica, holding back the flow of glaciers feeding into it.

Now dirt and material will migrate to the top of a glacier as it is melting back / receding and the edges can even become black.

In March, Oceans Melting Greenland (OMG) will conduct its second set of airborne surveys of glacier heights around the edge of Greenland and coastal ocean conditions.

Walk the «Edge of the Glacier Trail» to get a great photo in front of glacier ice.

Jökulsárlón is located on the edge of the famous Vatnajökull National Park and the place where you can see the large lake where you'll find some beautiful glaciers (even in Summer).

At the edge of Europe's largest glacier, Vatnajökull, this lagoon will impress you with its white and blue icebergs gently floating towards the open sea.

Take a trip through the five colorful realms of Jurassica — from wild jungle, through endless glacier, to the edge of a blazing volcano.

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.

snorbert zangox (93)-- I'll not attempt here to list all the harms which global warming has already caused to those living on some edge of the cryosphere, i.e., below glaciers or near the sea of the wwest coast of Alaska.

Other factors would include: — albedo shifts (both from ice > water, and from increased biological activity, and from edge melt revealing more land, and from more old dust coming to the surface...); — direct effect of CO2 on ice (the former weakens the latter); — increasing, and increasingly warm, rain fall on ice; — «stuck» weather systems bringing more and more warm tropical air ever further toward the poles; — melting of sea ice shelf increasing mobility of glaciers; — sea water getting under parts of the ice sheets where the base is below sea level; — melt water lubricating the ice sheet base; — changes in ocean currents -LRB-?)

It was an extraordinary vision, for this huddle of multi-coloured wooden huts — a community of different Arctic stations run by various countries and perched at the edge of a remote, glacier - rimmed fjord — is only 600 miles from the North Pole.

This is in fact increasingly observed around the edges of Greenland and Antarctica in recent years: outlet glaciers and ice streams that drain the ice sheets have greatly accelerated their flow.

The mountain sits on the south - east edge of the Qinghai - Tibet plateau, and in 1957 had 19 glaciers covering 11.61 square kilometres.

This small outlet glacier south of Jakobshavn Isbrae is moving ice from the interior of the ice sheet out to the ice sheet edge (top right), where the ice calves off into the ocean.

At Zuoqiupu glacier — a bellwether site on the southern edge of the plateau and downwind from the Indian subcontinent — black soot deposition increased by 30 percent between 1990 and 2003.