Sentences with phrase «of glacial streams»

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The glacial streams descending through the depressions among the mountain slopes constituted the usual lines of travel, and the route developed was new and independent, passing among mountain peaks rising to the height of 15,000 and 18,000 feet above the sea and gradually mounting to a maximum level before the Pole was reached and thence descending very gradually for 140 miles over a vast plateau to the position which was occupied on December l5th and 16th, 1911, and determined to be the South Pole.

One 2012 study estimated that late summer glacial contributions accounted for 23 percent to 54 percent of stream flow in several local watersheds.

For example, Jessica tell Mike how she and her colleagues pulled together a sweeping collection of paleoclimate evidence to reveal how the jet stream contracted and twisted in glacial boundary conditions, rather than moving monolithically south.

Timescales covered encompass the last 130 ka, in particular the time streams of the last glacial - interglacial cycle, the Holocene, and the last 2 ka.

• 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.

There were braided streams surrounding Kamishak, hundreds of waterfalls can be seen as you fly in, and all of the surrounding mountains had that classic glacial curvature to them.

Cradle Mountain rises behind the glacial formed waters of Dove Lake, bringing a trail of white sandy beaches and cascading streams easily explored by the well established walking tracks surrounding the mountain.

The wildlife, glacial streams, waterfalls, and the magnificent mountain scenery will invigorate your senses on this Canadian journey of discovery.

This was an immersive environment formed out of multiple video projections of glacial caverns pointed at oblique angles onto gossamer fabric that created a kind of undulating dream - world environment where nature is revealed as streams of colliding energy.

I think these are simply features of global climate that are embedded and as predictable as other large features like hurricane patterns, the gulf stream, the jet stream, sea ice extent and mass, global glacial conditions, sea level etc..

... indicates that glacial sediment sources were different from modern ones, which could reflect changes in the catchment areas of the glaciers and ice streams.

Losses of glacial ice and permanent snowpack as well as thawing permafrost are widespread and complex; they affect key aspects of alpine lakes and streams that include temperature, water discharge, and nutrient supply.

A process of dynamic glacial thinning also seems to occur, running back - stream up the glacier, in response to the initial shock of the ice - shelf loss.

While the mention of in situ stumps means those items have probably not moved from where they grew, a lot of the other material grew even further up the glacial stream and has been brought down to its present location.

But a new discussion paper, «The role of glaciers in stream flow from the Nepal Himalaya,» (Alford and Armstrong, The Cryosphere Discuss., 4, 469 - 494, 2010) concludes that glacial runoff contributes only about 4 % to the total annual stream flow of the Ganges system; the great majority is contributed by monsoon rains.

Data from modern ice stream beds are difficult to obtain, but where ice advanced onto continental shelves during glacial periods, extensive areas of the former bed can be imaged using modern swath sonar tools.