Sentences with phrase «of cracks in the ice»

The change, he concluded, was «attributed largely to atmospheric warming and melt pond penetration of cracks in the ice.»

The mixture of ammonia and cyanide, normally colorless, had deepened to amber, highlighting a web of cracks in the ice.

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Still, like the first cracks in the ice of late winter, North Korean leader Kim Jong - un's symbolic step into South Korea may be a harbinger of change.

Many of us who follow climate change news are aware that Greenland's ice is melting away, the Antarctic is cracking, and some Pacific islands are going underwater as seas rise — all because we are pumping more greenhouse gases into the thin layer of atmosphere in which we live.

Spring has started to melt a way through the giant frozen expanse of this archipelago in western Finland, as cracks in the ice turn into rust - coloured pools around wooden jetties in a sign of the coming summer.

That's what the new art and science of bioethics at the dawn of the 21st century had come down to in the end: No cracked ice for Terri Schiavo.»

I associated Ice Cube with a horrifyingly ridiculous speech I heard in a classroom by some handsome full - of - himself black 12th - grader, about how Ice Cube was his hero because he had inspired him to avoid crack and gangs, as if it were some heroic thing for this guy who apparently had pretty middle - class parents to avoid falling into those, and as if Ice Cube had not in fact glamorized the gang life, overt misogyny, etc..

The ice is beginning to crack in another section of the cold, hard surface of modernity.

Make a small well in the middle, crack in the egg and just a little bit of ice cold water.

Holding a large (preferably 1») cube of ice in the palm of your hand, use the back of a stirring spoon to crack it into large pieces; place in a mixing glass.

Plus plenty of orange juice in honor of the great state of Florida, bitters because feelings, and cracked ice to get some aggression out.

The typical careful description of the item read something like: «Four kinds of rum, eloquently blended and crushed pineapple, served over cracked ice with a splash of Fanta and coconut shavings; a dreamy potation to enhance any evening; served plain or a la mode in a fresh casaba husk.»

The discovery of waterlogged minerals and a growing ice wall suggests that the dwarf planet could harbor underground liquid water or slushy brine, which has escaped through cracks and craters in the recent past and may still be seeping out today.

Eventually, possibly a few hundred million years after the moon formed, the deepest parts of the ocean froze, swelling to crack surface ice — which may have been 10 km thick or more — just as ice cubes in a freezer often do.

The weight of the ponds forced cracks in the 650 - foot - thick ice.

More than once we had lost one of our four engines, and in 1987 a giant crack became persistently visible along the edge of the Larsen B ice shelf, off the Antarctic Peninsula — making it abundantly clear that an emergency landing would be no gentle touchdown.

Europa in particular beckons because it seems to have a salty ocean beneath its miles - thick crust of cracked ice.

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The crack remained dormant for decades, stuck in a section of the ice shelf called a suture zone, an area where glaciers flowing into the ice shelf come together.

As water accumulates in crevasses, its weight will drive the cracks deeper — «like a wedge,» Scambos says — until they reach the bottom of the ice, breaking off a long, skinny Tetris berg.

A crack has formed across a section of the Ross Ice Shelf in Antarctica, partially breaking it away from the continent.

Fissures and fractures around Tombaugh Regio and other parts of the planet suggested a subsurface layer of watery slush might be slowly solidifying, breaking up the surface as it expands like ice cubes in a freezer — but other, drier possibilities could also explain such cracks.

Science Ticker Science News Staff Antarctica's Larsen C ice shelf is within days of completely cracking The crack in Antarctica's Larsen C ice shelf (our No. 3 story for 2017) grew 17 kilometers at the end of May (SN Online: 6/1/17).

BREAK UP Last year a crack stretching tens of kilometers rapidly spread across Larsen C, shown here in 2009, one of the largest ice shelves in Antarctica.

In November 2014, Jansen assembled images of Larsen C taken by NASA's Landsat satellites and noticed something unusual: One of the cracks had spread past the suture zone and was more than halfway toward breaking off a large section of the ice shelf.

On a day in January, dead grasses bristle with ice along the edges of long cracks in the earth, and wisps of gas drift here and there.

Large pools of melt water splotching the ice shelf probably forced open cracks in the ice.

The researchers say both types of landscape show that cracks or molten regions in the ice have repeatedly exposed the ocean below to the surface.

But liquid water in the cracks can drill like a hot knife to the base of an ice shelf, snapping it in two.

The main argument of the Doubting Thomases has always been that the chemical signs of fossil life in Martian meteorites are really terrestrial contaminants; perhaps microbe - laden water seeped into cracks in the rocks after they landed on the Antarctic ice.

But when black ice is thinner than 1.25 inches, cracks in the central part of the arch can no longer be supported vertically or horizontally.

«If ice caps and glaciers were to continue to crack and break into pieces, [the amount of] their surface area that is exposed to air would be significantly increased, which could lead to accelerated melting and much - reduced coverage area on the Earth,» Buehler said in a statement.

That's when the cracks are so big that there is plenty of give in the ice and you should not be on the lake.

Recent radar mapping of Antarctica's Larsen C ice shelf (top left) reveal that a new crack (right in both inset and white section of diagram) has forked from a long fissure that cuts across the ice shelf.

They discovered potentially revelatory harmonic properties of ice quakes, which are minor rumbles produced when cracks in the ice are reshaped by water flowing through them.

The IPCC has taken a crack at that, identifying 26 «key vulnerabilities» in its most recent assessment, ranging from declines in agricultural productivity to the melting of ice sheets and polar ice cover as well as determining how to judge if they are spiraling out of control.

«We see places where very clearly the ice has cracked,» says John Spencer, an astronomer working at the Southwest Research Institute's Department of Space Studies in Boulder, Colo. «And the two sides have spread apart, and material has come up frozen in the middle, to fill the gap.»

Advocates of embryo - destructive research and related practices, in particular, are treading on a very thin layer of ice that could easily crack beneath them if some new development underscores the ethical questions surrounding such research, rather than the potential for medical progress alone.

Cassini has sampled the ice crystals and vapor that spew like geysers out of cracks in the surface of Enceladus.

Scientists have long suspected that the network of cracks in Europa's ice sheet could indicate a large volume of water underneath, and recent analysis of magnetic field data from the Galileo probe seems to confirm there is a salty ocean down there.

Scientists have watched as a crack in the Antarctic Peninsula's Larsen C ice shelf has grown across the shelf, allowing a massive amount of ice to break away.

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The Russian and American scientists have never before experienced anything of such magnitude, and in addition to powerful emissions from shallow waters where over 100 readings were recorded, it is spewing up from within cracks in the Arctic ice in the open seas far from land.

The reddish lines in the moon's icy crust are cracks and ridges, some of them thousands of kilometres long, while the reddish mottling indicates areas of disrupted ice, where large ice blocks have shifted.

There, plumes of ice and water vapour were discovered, jetting out from cracks in its surface.

As this water moves through rocks, it dissolves salt compounds and pushes through fractures in the overlying ice to form reservoirs closer the moon's surface, where it is expelled into space when the outermost layer of the crust cracks open and the resulting depressurization of these reservoirs causes water vapor and ice particles to shoot out in the observed plumes.

The situation is far more dire up in Shishmaref, where not only is ground disappearing but so are people, such as the son of an Eskimo who perished when he fell through a crack in the rapidly melting Arctic ice.

In the latter category, there are Pam (Jason Mantzoukas), a gun - toting shopkeeper who sells drugs to kids out of an ice cream truck, and Jason's cousin Nick (Adam Pally), a younger version of Dick who shows up on crutches during the movie's climax for no apparent reason (It might seem like a useless point to raise, but the screenplay somehow lacks logical consistency, such as when Jason scolds Dick for smoking the «gateway drug» of marijuana after the grandson smoked crack earlier).

The seas were choked with ice even in midsummer, for tremendous storms would crack the polar ice cap and fling mountainous cliffs into the paths of their wooden vessels.

- a lot of focus was put on sound effects in order to immerse players in the world of Hyrule - the development team worked with Sound Racer, a studio specialized in sound effects - this studio also worked on Xenoblade Chronicles X - they recorded more than 10 000 different sounds for the game - the team used a school bag to simulate the sound of rubbing leather - for the sound of «normal» footsteps, they mixed various kinds of sands - for the sounds of equipment, they had to search for various materials and find ways to use them - they used an actual block of ice to recreate the sound of footsteps on ice - with the ice block, it always ended up melting, or getting cracks when the staff had to walk on it - Link's footsteps were made by a woman - depending on Link's actions and the equipment he's using / wearing, the recorded sounds were separated out individually - the volume is changed as needed to make a particular sound stand out - check out sound effect samples here