Sentences with phrase «of glacial river»

From pictures of senior middle school students in China carrying out military training and swimmers about to embark on a triathlon to an aerial view of a glacial river in Iceland and camels walking in a line along a famous beach in Australia — each one is as stunning as the last.

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My itinerary was Torre del Paine National Park, a preserve of stark beauty with jagged peaks bisected by frozen glacial rivers of ice, herds of guanacos, nandus (large ostrich - like birds also called rheas), foxes and, most nearly - extinct of all, the rarely - seen authentic cowboy.

The river sands are topped with a thick layer of coarser sediment that signals the onset of glacial erosion in the valley, the researchers found.

Record high temperatures in Pakistan's far north were already producing higher amounts of snowmelt and glacial meltwater runoff from the Karakoram Range and into the Indus River System.

The concentrations of dissolved phosphate the researchers found in the Leverett Glacier meltwater — which is just one form of phosphorus found in the meltwater — were similar to concentrations found in Arctic rivers, and among the highest levels recorded in glacial meltwaters worldwide.

The proportions of the canyon, as well as its meandering path, suggest that the feature was carved by a great river well before the island was coated with ice, not by glacial action in the years since.

A spiderweb of small rivers form, cutting channels in the ice and spilling into a series of glacial tarns at the mouth of the basin.

Greenland's glacial rivers may flush some 400,000 tons of phosphorus into ocean waters — on par with the Mississippi or the Amazon.

The combination of glacial melt and precipitation produce an amount of water that's larger than many of the world's great rivers, such as the Ganges, Nile, Volga, Niger, Columbia, Danube or Yellow River.

As much a third of the glacial ice above the crater has melted — it had been up to 250 meters thick in spots — raising the level of a nearby river by nearly a meter and covering some roads.

• Safe: free of disease - causing microorganisms (bacteria, viruses, spores); heavy metals; chemicals from industry and agriculture; pharmaceuticals; disinfectants and related by - products; radioactivity; and synthetic fluoride; • Fresh: neither salty nor stagnant; • Clean: physically, biologically and chemically; • Natural: coming from a pristine mountain stream, glacial river or fresh spring; • Hydrating: water with low surface tension and thus better hydrating; • Mineral balanced: contains a wide variety of minerals including trace minerals, excellent ionic activity (Total Dissolved Solids ~ 300 ppm), including cations such as calcium, magnesium, potassium and sodium; and anions such as nitrate, chloride, bicarbonate, sulfate and carbonate.

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The Kingdom of Bhutan is a place of soaring 7,000 - metre Himalayan peaks, glacial river valleys and evergreen forests.

The little Disco handled deep snow, roads made of ice, slush, glacial rivers and real glaciers in the land of constant volcano explosions — and it lived to tell the tale.

Over that time, we were faced with an incredible diversity of conditions: from glacial river crossings to decommissioned forest service roads, endless sand dunes and treacherous alpine crossings.

The eastern part is forested and mountainous, the west is drier lowland; there are more than 8,000 rivers running through the republic and numerous lakes, many of which are glacial, salt lakes.

Climbing it rewards you with incredible 360 degree views of the area — Greenland's ice cap to the East, Kangerlussuaq to the West, and the glacial river called Akuliarusiarsuup Kuua below.

Go on a ranger - led hike in a glacial valley, raft down the wildlife - rich Snake River, and cruise the emerald waters of Jenny Lake.

Here you find mountains akin to the dramatic landscapes of New Zealand, combined with the largest glacial ice fields in South America, slowly melting to feed into a vast network of turquoise rivers and lakes, with water so pure you can drink it!

Gaupnefjorden branch of Sognefjorden is strongly affected by freshwater as glacial river flow in.

The Nine Great Walks span 550 km of spectacular New Zealand terrain from the alpine peaks of the Tongariro Northern Circuit to the rainforests of the Heaphy Track, golden beaches, a stunning river journey and the glacial valleys of one of the finest walks in the world, the Milford Track right here in my own, Read More

More adventuresome visitors can reach the headwaters of the Amazon River, a glacial tributary on the northern slope of El Mismi Volcano.

The climb begins in the valley of the Animas River before the canyon narrows, all roads vanish, and for 30 miles there exists only the railroad, the glacial green waters of the Animas and the 3,657 to 4,267 - metre peaks of the San Juan Mountains.

Hewn out of granite by colliding rivers of ice, this is Kosciuszko National Park's deepest glacial lake.

From here it's a gentle walk as the path follows the raised metal wakway past yet another glacial lake, over the headwaters of the Snowy River and on to the Eagles Nest for a ride down the chairlift to Thredbo.

A multi-screen video installation exploring the glacial rivers and ice in Iceland and implications of a changing climate in the far north.

The effects of glacier retreat would become evident during the dry season, particularly in the west where glacial melt is more important to the river systems.

Dr. Koppes is a glacial geomorphologist whose main interest these days is how glaciers respond to climate change; her co-author, David R. Montgomery of the University of Washington, is a geomorphologist, too, but a fluvial one — he comes at the subject from the river side.

Some 22 percent of its glacial endowment, which feeds the many Peruvian rivers that supply water to the cities in the semi-arid coastal regions, has disappeared.

From which this came: «Once these glacial rivers pour out into the larger body of water, they're picked up by ocean currents, moving east to west, and begin to circulate there.

In the Andes, glacial melt water supports river flow and water supply for tens of millions of people during the long dry season.

The originally hypothesized source of freshwater was the eastward routing of Glacial Lake Agassiz from the Mississippi River to the St. Lawrence River, as the Laurentide Ice Sheet retreated northward out of the Great Lakes (Johnson and McClure, 1976; Rooth, 1982; Broecker, 2006).

A river gets blocked by glacial ice and 50 years later glacial lake Missoula breaks out and the Scablands of Washington State are created.

From historic droughts around the world and in places like California, Syria, Brazil and Iran to inexorably increasing glacial melt; from an expanding blight of fish killing and water poisoning algae blooms in lakes, rivers and oceans to a growing rash of global record rainfall events; and from record Arctic sea ice volume losses approaching 80 percent at the end of the summer of 2012 to a rapidly thawing permafrost zone explosively emitting an ever - increasing amount of methane and CO2, it's already a disastrous train - wreck.

In the Himalayas, the glacial system provides water and sediment to the intensively tilled valleys of the Indus, Amu Darya, Ganga (Ganges), Brahmaputra, Yellow, Yangtze, Sutlej, Mekong and Nu / Salween, and these river systems nourish food production and sustain the lives of millions.

Numerous peer - reviewed publications describe implications of recent increases, but likely longer - term declines, in water input from glacial rivers to reservoirs and therefore hydropower resources.67, 5,68

Loss of glacial volume in Alaska and neighboring British Columbia, Canada, currently contributes 20 % to 30 % as much surplus freshwater to the oceans as does the Greenland Ice Sheet — about 40 to 70 gigatons per year, 66,78,63,57,64,58 comparable to 10 % of the annual discharge of the Mississippi River.79 Glaciers continue to respond to climate warming for years to decades after warming ceases, so ice loss is expected to continue, even if air temperatures were to remain at current levels.

In the Indus, Ganges, Yellow, and Yangtze River basins, where irrigated agriculture depends heavily on rivers, the loss of glacial - fed, dry - season flow will shrink harvests and could create unmanageable food shortages.

The scientists focused their study on four large glaciers in Nepal's Dudh Kosi river basin, which holds 400 square kilometres of glacial ice.

Seismologists at Columbia University and Harvard University have found a new indicator that the Earth is warming: «glacial earthquakes» caused when the rivers of ice lurch unexpectedly and produce temblors as strong as magnitude 5.1 on the moment - magnitude scale, which is similar to the Richter scale.

The Yellow River basin only marginally depends on glacial melt; thus there is a notable 9.5 per cent increase in upstream water yield in the basin with an estimate of an increase of 3.0 ± 0.6 million people that can be fed in the Yellow River basin.

Part of the water flow in these river basins depends on snow and glacial melt to perennial rivers, such as the Ganges, Indus, Brahmaputra, Mekong and Yangtze (9).

There has been no long - term comprehensive in - situ monitoring of glacial melt contributing to the knowledge of hydrology in the river basins of the Himalayan region.

In 2010 geologists found evidence for a Dryas trigger in a massive release of glacial meltwater, as Broecker had predicted, only by way of the Mackenzie River system of northern Canada rather than the St. Lawrence, Murton et al. (2010).

I wonder if the rate of sediment deposition will actually increase as glacial melting increases in the Himalayas, before slowing again as the major rivers of South Asia become fed more by rain alone than by seasonal glacial melting.

Higher elevation areas could experience altered water flow in some river basins if current rates of glacial retreat continue, but shifts in the location, intensity, and variability of rain and snow due to climate change will likely have a greater impact on regional water supplies.

The observed effects of cryosphere reduction include modification of river regimes due to enhanced glacial melt, snowmelt advance and enhanced winter base flow; formation of thermokarst terrain and disappearance of surface lakes in thawing permafrost; decrease in potential travel days of vehicles over frozen roads in the Arctic; enhanced potential for glacier hazards and slope instability due to mechanical weakening driven by ice and permafrost melting; regional ocean freshening; sea - level rise due to glacier and ice sheet shrinkage; biotic colonisation and faunal changes in deglaciated terrain; changes in freshwater and marine ecosystems affected by lake - ice and sea - ice reduction; changes in livelihoods; reduced tourism activities related to skiing, ice climbing and scenic activities in cryospheric areas affected by degradation; and increased ease of ship transportation in the Arctic.