Sentences with phrase «massive calving»

The record heat and melting coincided with a massive calving event at Petermann Glacier, which also occurred in mid July.

Even temperate ice is quite strong and can sustain massive calving fronts.

It's worth adding: one suspected dynamic of WAIS melting is quite different from GIS melting: massive calving.

Scientists have become growingly concerned about ice shelf collapse, and in 2016, they proposed a new rule allowing for special study areas following collapse or massive calving events.

Recent massive calving events at Larsen C's smaller neighbors do have a stronger link to climate change, though.

It's the first time that researchers have been able to put boots on the ground so quickly after a massive calving event, and they have a lot of questions.

Not exact matches

A new study has found that the massive Laurentide ice sheet that covered Canada during the last ice age initially began shrinking through calving of icebergs, and then abruptly shifted into a new regime where melting on the continent took precedence, ultimately leading to the sheet's demise.

The Petermann Glacier last birthed — or «calved» — a massive iceberg two years ago, in August 2010.

Massive icebergs calving off of Antarctic ice sheets and floating through the Southern Ocean deposit iron, which fertilizes the seawater and nurtures massive phytoplankton Massive icebergs calving off of Antarctic ice sheets and floating through the Southern Ocean deposit iron, which fertilizes the seawater and nurtures massive phytoplankton massive phytoplankton blooms.

Guests on UnCruise Alaskan cruises are often treated to a glacier calving show, as seen below where guests from the Safari Endeavour witnessed massive chunks calve from the face of Dawes Glacier.

The icebergs calving at the fringe are like dandruff compared to the massive skull of ice stuck in the central basin.

The former VP's film shows dramatic shots of massive chunks of ice breaking off glaciers, but this «calving» of icebergs is a normal, natural process, which has been creating our valleys for millions of years.

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.

Massive icebergs calving off of Antarctic ice sheets and floating through the Southern Ocean deposit iron, which fertilizes the seawater and nurtures massive phytoplankton Massive icebergs calving off of Antarctic ice sheets and floating through the Southern Ocean deposit iron, which fertilizes the seawater and nurtures massive phytoplankton massive phytoplankton blooms.

Glaciologists have given the ice shelf weeks to months to calve, creating a massive iceberg.