Sentences with phrase «of deep crevasses»

The lowermost parts of Greenland are actually very rough, and the surface there consists of deep crevasses and large hummocks.

Large numbers of deep crevasses are a sign that parts of the glacier are moving rapidly.

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Those crags and valleys in his face are deeper than the crevasses of the devil's kingdom.

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.

The aircraft breaks free of the clouds, and a plane - shaped shadow slides across the ice sheet between crevasses more than 100 feet deep.

To celebrate, I've gone on an all - arms hunt through the deep crevasses of the internet to find eight of my favorite octopus videos.

While researchers quickly linked the breakup to lakes of meltwater that had accumulated on the so - called Larsen B ice shelf's upper surface and then wedged apart deep crevasses, they hadn't come up with a convincing explanation for what triggered the collapse.

Instead, Kormakur and cinematographer Salvatore Totino (a frequent Ron Howard collaborator) focus on jagged cuts of glacial ice, deep crevasses, and the sheer, seemingly impossible passes these people must cross in order to summit the mountain.

Learn about the behavior of glaciers and hike with professional mountain guides on the Solheimajökull glacial tongue, a wonderland of ice sculptures, water cauldrons, ridges, and deep crevasses.

Franz Josef Glacier Guides will take you deep in the heart of the glacier where you can squeeze through tight blue crevasses, slide through ice caves or even «franz shuffle» down near vertical walls of ice.

Crevasses are deep cracks that form in an ice sheet as a result of its movement.

In New Zealand, we go deep into a crevasse in the Franz Josef Glacier to understand how the advance and retreat of massive glaciers during Earth's Ice Ages is tied to changing levels of carbon dioxide.