Sentences with phrase «melted water atop»
On a clear day, anyone flying over Greenland on the route between North America and Europe can look down and see the bright blue patches of melted water atop the flat, blindingly white expanse of the ice sheet that covers the island, the second largest chunk of ice on Earth.
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Melt the butter, 8 ounces of chocolate chips, and unsweetened chocolate on top of a double boiler (I just place a glass bowl atop a saucepan of simmering water, not allowing the bowl to touch the water).
On the stove, melt chocolate chips in a heatproof bowl atop a pot of simmering water, stirring continuously.
A new map of the surrounding seafloor helps explain why: Many of the fastest - melting glaciers sit atop deep fjords that allow Atlantic Ocean water to melt them from below.
The wind changes were found to be heaving warm currents from deeper waters up into a zone where the Antarctic ice sheet is vulnerable to melt and crumble from beneath — the area where towers of ice sit atop submerged ground.
Melt over a double boiler (i.e. in a bowl sitting atop a saucepan of simmering water on the stove) until runny.
This extreme ice water sport features two water polo teams vying to score goals before they are sucked into the deep aquamarine vortex draining a melt water lake atop the Greenland icecap.