Sentences with phrase «mountains by glaciers»
The boulders, he concluded, had been scoured out of the mountains by glaciers that calved into the sea.
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Roughly 210 million people live in the region, and another 1.3 billion people who live downstream depend on rivers fed in part by glaciers and mountain snowpack.
The peculiar snowbank is located on Ellesmere Island, a huge landmass northwest of Greenland that is dominated by arching mountains and sprawling glaciers, and where the temperature averages around -5 degrees Fahrenheit for the year.
As glaciers in most parts of the Himalayas melt, floods caused by the bursting of rapidly expanding glacial lakes pose an increasing risk to mountain communities.
By measuring how long rocks at different heights on the mountain have seen sunlight, Balco could calculate how quickly the glacier thinned and reexposed the mountain.
A 3D map of Antarctica today shows chasms carved by glaciers, rugged mountains and other remnants of its warmer existence.
Beneath a glacier in the Transantarctic Mountains some 12 million years ago, the downhill flow of a massive, growing reservoir of meltwater was restrained by walls of ice.
The shelf is fed by several mountain glaciers that flow from the continent's interior into the ocean like fingers connected to a palm.
«By going to all of these individual glaciers, we can get a much better understanding of what has happened and what was moved on the entire mountain range.»
«Everyone was fooled by the collapse of a mountain,» says Martin Luethi, a glaciologist at the University of Zurich, who has been studying Greenland's glaciers since 1995.
He recently took that experience to Nepal, where he collected water samples from the Himalayan glacier - fed Kosi River as part of an expedition led by the Mountain Institute.
A bigger challenge was tallying up all the sediments eroded off the mountains and dumped in the ocean by the glaciers.
There is also an idea that mountain glaciers, and repeated continental glaciation and deglaciation, may actually enhance chemical weathering by their mechanical weathering, even though the cold climate generally inhibits it.
Many scientists concede that without drastic emissions reductions by 2020, we are on the path toward a 4C rise as early as mid-century, with catastrophic consequences, including the loss of the world's coral reefs; the disappearance of major mountain glaciers; the total loss of the Arctic summer sea - ice, most of the Greenland ice - sheet and the break - up of West Antarctica; acidification and overheating of the oceans; the collapse of the Amazon rainforest; and the loss of Arctic permafrost; to name just a few.
The body was brought to a hospital connected to a high profile university in a valley surrounded by mountains and glaciers.
Thousands of miles of plains, mountains and glaciers, stunning canyons and natural monuments shaped by the wind, ancient cave paintings and glyphs can still be seen — as can modern cities complete with entertainment centres and shopping malls, built from scratch in the middle of the steppe.
Lamoille Canyon (formed by glaciers) and the Ruby Mountains (a.k.a..
In the southern reaches of Patagonia is the breathtakingly beautiful Parque Nacional Torres del Paine, which is dominated by rugged mountain peaks, deep fjords and channels teeming with penguins, and enormous ice fields flanked by brilliant blue glaciers.
White - water raft alongside forested valleys, deep gorges and mountains carved by glaciers on the furious Franklin River, in the World Heritage - listed Franklin - Gordon Wild Rivers National Park.
Its breathtaking landscape, formed by glaciers, consists of massive fiords, snow - capped mountains, impressive waterfalls and stunning lakes.
On our active adventures, you'll trek through some of the world's most legendary mountain ranges; go kayaking amid icebergs and calving glaciers; and veer far off the beaten path, discovering wild and stunning landscapes by foot, horseback, and even dogsled.
Mulligans is a picturesque executive length course surrounded by snow capped mountains and the Comox Valley glacier in the distance.
Take in the breathtaking views of the mountains and glaciers right from your cottage's picture window, relax by the fire, or lounge in the 2 - person Jacuzzi.
By far one of the most strikingly beautiful skydives in the world, Nzones Queenstown skydive captures views of snow capped mountains, canyon valleys and glacier lakes after a heart pumping free fall from 15,000 ft high
Our train departs from the town centre and climbs along the mountain base, passing the Eibsee Lake as well as «Hell Valley», named so thanks to it's narrow gorge that gives way to steep valley walls, on its way to the Zugspitzplatt, situated by the impressive Schneeferner glacier.
The valley was formed by an ancient glacier, and is now home to rivers, lakes, tussock flats and beech forests, all surrounded by precipitous mountains.
There are some of the most diverse environments on Earth from beaches with black sand, some of them by the way, and rainforests, mountains, lakes, glaciers, and they've even got a volcano.
Vast and inscrutable, Argentina's magnificent landscapes stretch from spectacular waterfalls in the north across expansive drum - flat pampas, fringed by the Andes on one side and the Atlantic on the other, to the glaciers, lakes and mountains of the deep south.
Bordered on two sides by National Parks, the tiny village sits against a backdrop of rugged high country, beautiful mountains, glacier fed rivers and ancient beech forests.
Largely dominated by mountains and the deep, ocean - filled fjords that were created by the retreat of ancient glaciers, Norway's pristine, unspoilt beauty demands admiration and exploration.
Spectacular vertical granite peaks, immense rivers of ice, wind - swept plains and native beech forests define this spot of intense rugged beauty in the South of Chili and Argentina, where the Andes mountains are covered by the most extensive area of glaciers outside the world's polar regions.
New stations designed by world - renowned architect, Zaha Hadid, beautifully reflect the Alpine glaciers of the city and on the way up you can hop off to visit the Alpine Zoo, home to mountain animals.
Spend two hours exploring the remote white ice of Tasman glacier, New Zealand's longest and most famous river of ice, flanked by the towering mountains of Aoraki / Mount Cook National Park.
From the lake district near Bariloche on Ruta 40 by way of the dry foothills of the Andes Mountains southward to the glaciers in National Park Los Glaciares near El Calafate.
The Cradle Mountain Huts Walk by Tasmanian Walking Company offers a 65 kilometre (40 mile), six - day walk in which you'll wander through ancient rainforests, alpine meadows and button grass plains once covered by glaciers.
The world renowned train travels by daylight through the diverse landscapes of the Pacific Northwest and Western Canada while guests relish the breath - taking views of tumbling waterfalls, glacier - capped mountains and wildlife of the regions.
As if the gorgeous stars weren't enough, you will be surrounded by the Salkantay Lake, the glaciers of the Salkantay and Humantay Mountains and the indescribable moraines (natural formations of small hills produced from the pressure of ice falling from the glaciers above).
Next, we will travel for about 3 hours (4 km) across a mountain completely covered by lush vegetation with incredible views of mountain, glaciers and the turbulent waters of the Urubamba River.
Overlooking the shores of the magnificent glacier - carved fjord of Hood Canal, Alderbrook Resort & Spa is luxurious spa retreat surrounded by the Olympic Mountains and just two hours» drive from Seattle.
This location has a broad view of the valley surrounded by mountains and glaciers, and Debré explored extensively the area's fascinating landscape.
From Terry Svat's work that is a reminiscent of Lascaux cave pictographs by creating the idea of packing up, moving on, a new freedom, Pauline Jakobserg and her constructing narratives that confront cultural memories, Felisa Federman depicts nature connected with folk legends, Miguel Perez Lem landscapes evoking the grandeur of the Andes Mountains and Nancy Nesvet beautifuly paints the threatened future of glaciers and wildlife.
Throughout his career, Smyth has collected and catalogued found stones broken from mountains, carried by glaciers, dropped at glacial moraines and smoothed by tides and sand.
It seems clear to me that that mountain glaciers and permafrost are: 1 sensitive indicators of changes in temperature; 2 uncontaminated by urban heat islands; 3 have short response times (no problem with lagged response to Little Ice Age cooling); have wide geographical coverage (especially in remote areas).
A boulder deposited by a glacier during the last ice age sits atop Cadillac Mountain in Acadia National Park, Maine.
Geoengineering proposals fall into at least three broad categories: 1) managing atmospheric greenhouse gases (e.g., ocean fertilization and atmospheric carbon capture and sequestration), 2) cooling the Earth by reflecting sunlight (e.g., putting reflective particles into the atmosphere, putting mirrors in space to reflect the sun's energy, increasing surface reflectivity and altering the amount or characteristics of clouds), and 3) moderating specific impacts of global warming (e.g., efforts to limit sea level rise by increasing land storage of water, protecting ice sheets or artificially enhancing mountain glaciers).
IPCC AR4 WG1 SPM says (under «Fresh water resources and their management» of «C. Current knowledge about future impacts») In the course of the century, water suppries stored in glaciers and snow cover are projected to decline, reducing water availability in regions supplied by meltwater from major mountain ranges, where more than one - sixth of the world population currently lives.
But if global warming continues at its current rate, the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change estimates, the glaciers could be mostly gone from the mountains by 2035.
On low - lying land (around sea - level), mostly surrounded by mountains, draining to the sea by various large glaciers.
Half of the ice flows in the Karakoram range of mountains are advancing and not retreating, researchers announced in the first major study since a 2007 United Nations report warned the glaciers would melt by 2035, according to the Daily Mail.
Research by the Kunming branch of the Chinese Academy of Sciences found that glacier melt now makes up only 29 % of groundwater in the mountain — meaning the glaciers are shrinking.