Sentences with phrase «movement of glaciers»

Finding that record was a challenge because glaciers moving on land tend to wipe out and cover up previous movements of the glacier, Licht said.

Obviously in the short term the ZnJ effects will give rise to variations in the rate of movement of the glacier, but it is the longer term effects relating to energy transfer that worry me.

An ambitious new mapping project has given scientists one of their most complete looks yet at the movement of glaciers all around Antarctica.

The movement of glaciers can compete with the internal buildup and develop a feedback process that is very rapid and ferocious.

Truffer, a physicist who uses ground - based radar to measure the movement of glaciers, thinks this is linked to temperature rise.

GPS is being used to create a detailed and comprehensive portrait of nearly all Earth's dynamic surfaces, including the zones where tectonic plates meet, the slippage along earthquake faults, and the movement of glaciers.

Scientists analyzing satellite data were astonished to discover the size of the vast lakes and river systems flowing beneath the Antarctic ice sheets, which may lubricate the movement of these glaciers as they flow into the surrounding sea.

The formation, size and movement of glaciers can provide valuable data, he said, because these characteristics reflect current and historic changes in temperature, precipitation or both.

Slow, powerful visual rhythms imbue Stern's rich forms with the weighty feel of geologic time, like the movement of glaciers in exotic hues.

A great deal of the work I have been doing recently concerns land conditions and the movements of glaciers, so although not specifically about sea levels, have a very direct impact on them.

A paper titled «Late Holocene fluctuations of Qori Kalis outlet glacier, Quelccaya Ice Cap, Peruvian Andes» in the journal Geology examined the movement of the glacier in the last 1,000 years.

An ambitious new mapping project has given scientists one of their most complete looks yet at the movement of glaciers all around Antarctica.

Scientists analyzing satellite data were astonished to discover the size of the vast lakes and river systems flowing beneath the Antarctic ice sheets, which may lubricate the movement of these glaciers as they flow into the surrounding sea.