Sentences with phrase «of ice behind them»

At the grounding line, the ice detaches from the bedrock and juts out into the water as a kind of floating ledge, or ice shelf, which helps to stabilize the glacier and hold back the flow of ice behind it.

The ice shelves act like corks in a wine bottle, keeping the flow of ice behind them from reaching the sea, Hellmer said.

That is, when a marine front becomes buoyant enough to unground, the section of ice behind the marine front becomes the new front.

That is, when a marine front becomes buoyant enough to unground, the section of ice behind the marine front becomes the new front.

These ice shelves are responsible for stabilizing the glacier and hold back the flood of ice behind them.

At the grounding line, the ice detaches from the bedrock and juts out into the water as a kind of floating ledge, or ice shelf, which helps to stabilize the glacier and hold back the flow of ice behind it.

As these «dams» disappear, the rivers of ice behind them are accelerating and thinning.

Not exact matches

And if Gomez, whose multiyear legal battle is likely to reach a head later this month with a verdict expected on May 24, does land behind bars, the chilling effect on researchers will be of Ice Age proportions.

I think a lot of people think it's all glitz and glamour, but there's a lot of things behind the scenes that people don't realize that go on day - in and day - out, with treatment, with pre hab, with the post-game ice baths and bikes.

Jon Duschinsky, Conversation Farm CEO and one of the creators behind the Ice Bucket Challenge, talks about the need for making philanthropy profitable.

Dickerson from Consumer Edge said moves into China can not be that far behind, given the success of other concepts like high - end Haagen Dazs ice - cream shops, McDonalds, KFC and Starbucks.

RICHMOND, Virginia — President Donald Trump is the ice - breaker ship that broke through 30 years of thick permafrost, according to former Trump administration official Dr. Sebastian Gorka, who called on 200 grassroots activists to be the flotilla that keeps the ice from reforming behind him.

I felt like I was inside a cave of ice, or behind an invisible wall.

Cauldron Ice Cream is partnered with Fransmart, the industry - leading franchise development company behind the explosive growth of brands like Five Guys Burgers and Fries, The Halal Guys, and Qdoba Mexican Grill, as their exclusive franchise development partner to grow the brand.

That was the concept behind these muffins, that add ripe bananas, dark chocolate chips, and walnuts together in a faithful adaptation of this popular ice cream.

Pre-cake batter ice cream I'd opt for mint chocolate chip or chocolate chocolate chip, but the cake batter flavor has officially made me leave the world of chocolate ice cream behind, and never look back!

By extracting all the natural and delicious flavors of coffee and tea, and leaving behind the bitter acids and oils attached to their warm brew counterparts, the Toddy Cold Brew System produces a smooth, low acid concentrate ideal for hot or iced coffee or tea.

Far from being a blip, scooping ice cream behind the counter at Ben & Jerry's was the place I found out how much my brain wanted and needed the act of cooking: messy but focused, challenging but mechanical, all - consuming but unintellectual.

Jason Dady, chef behind San Antonio's B&D Ice House, The DUK Truck, and the Shuck Shack, goes out of his way to make a pit stop at Buc - ee's.

Amelia thought photographing ice cream was a new and fun game so of course she bolted from room to room right behind me.

With 1:26 to play in the third period and an extra attacker on the ice, Chicago Blackhawks forward Michael Frolik scored his second goal of the series when he backhanded a loose puck into the net behind Phoenix Coyotes goalie Mike Smith to force overtime in Game 4 of their Western Conference Quarterfinal series.

I kept pushing through to find the solid bits of ice cream that were left behind — most of which were the vanilla at the bottom of the bowl — but I was running out of reasons to keep at this.

As the pair got tangled up behind the net, Crosby pushed Subban's head into the ice, which garnered a pair of matching minors for both sides.

More to them than a coach of multifarious talents who, while pacing behind the bench, devours crushed ice to ease tension and talks about things like «the synergistic effect» of his retread Flyers — a team of workaholic castoffs whose whole is far greater than the sum of its parts.

In the more recent GM meetings, he was one of the ~ 10 GMs pushing to get it changed from skate behind the line and on the ice to just behind the line, the vertical plane blue line, if you will.

That picture of Tenzing Norgay — the second man atop Everest and Hillary's Nepali climbing partner — with one leg in a huge snow boot cocked up on the ice, being captured by someone behind the camera who somehow did not care about taking a selfie at the top.

Nevertheless, Joao Teixeira added a third shortly after the second goal to put the icing on the cake, as Liverpool will now look forward to facing West Ham United in the fourth round after a straight - forward win put the difficulties of the 2 - 2 draw in the initial tie with Exeter behind them.

Saturday night in Montreal the largest crowd in the Forum's history — 18,904 habitants — was disappointed in the first minute of play when Esposito broke away behind the Canadien defense and heal Dryden with a 20 - foot ice - skimmer.

George R.R. Martin, the mastermind behind the «A Song of Ice and Fire» series of novels, planned out this twist since the first book was published two decades ago.

Neal Goldman, Brand Manager for Men's Lacrosse at Brine, talks about ways to reduce the risk of concussion in boy's lacrosse, which, according to a 2011 study1 of U.S. high schools with at least one athletic trainer on staff, has the third highest concussion rate (46.6 per 100,000 athletic exposures (1 AE is one athlete participating in one organized high school athletic practice or competition, regardless of the amount of time played), behind only football (76.8) and boys» ice hockey (61.9).

All of the ice not protected by ash sublimated away, leaving the pack ice plates behind.

Completed in 1980 but operational before then, the VLA was behind the discoveries of water ice on Mercury; the complex region surrounding Sagittarius A *, the black hole at the core of the Milky Way galaxy; and it helped astronomers identify a distant galaxy already pumping out stars less than a billion years after the big bang.

One possiblity is that an icy object might have collided with 24 Themis, leaving behind a layer of ice.

Eric Cravens, assistant curator at the National Ice Core Laboratory in Lakewood, Colorado, stands behind a wall of aluminum - encased ice corIce Core Laboratory in Lakewood, Colorado, stands behind a wall of aluminum - encased ice corice cores.

Samuel Morse, for instance, inventor of the telegraph itself and the eponymous code, was eventually compensated for his intellectual property with the still nontrivial sum of $ 80,000 — this in an age when men holding court behind ice buckets in the corner booths of Manhattan nightclubs could comfortably brag about pulling in a cool $ 2,000 a year.

The Vermont - based ice cream company is typically thought of as a fun - loving, free - spirited enterprise but, behind the scenes, it takes scoops of dedication and scientific expertise to invent the flavors we've come to love while maintaining the highest - quality standards.

This sandy heap actually causes the oozing ice to slow, pile up and thicken slightly behind it — providing a buffer that may stabilize the ice sheet in the face of those warm currents.

Once again, the demise of floating ice removed the backstop that stabilized glaciers behind it.

(Reuters)- The Ice Bucket Challenge that went viral two years ago, raising hundreds of millions of dollars, has helped identify a new gene behind the neurodegenerative disease ALS, or Lou Gehrig's disease, researchers say.

Currently a rim of ice at the coast holds the ice behind in place: like a cork holding back the content of a bottle.

As this happens, the floating ice shelf in front of it also lengthens and thins, increasing its chances of breaking and allowing even more ice to flow out from behind it.

The wide, middle ring known as the B ring — one of the easiest to see from Earth through telescopes because it is densely packed with chunks of bright water ice — looks dark in these images because it is so thick that it blocks almost all of the sunlight shining behind it.

All told, if the eastern and western Antarctic ice shelves were to melt completely, they would raise sea levels by as much as 230 feet (70 meters); the collapse of smaller shelves like Larsen B has sped up the flow of glaciers behind them into the sea, contributing to the creeping up of high tide levels around the world.

Furthermore, unraveling the causes of sea ice retreat should help us understand the mechanisms behind climate change on a global level, which is interrelated to the ice reduction in the Arctic ocean.»

Sadly, all the dry ice has evaporated and after 3 days behind a freezer, the internal temperature of the box is approaching that of the Gobi desert.

NSIDC will issue a formal announcement at the beginning of October with full analysis of the possible causes behind this year's ice conditions, particularly interesting aspects of the melt season, the set up going into the winter growth season ahead, and graphics comparing this year to the long - term record.

Meltwater from the ice sheet that once covered Canada has left behind clues that could help scientists predict the future of Greenland's vanishing ice

From somewhere back behind the Iowa State University Icing Research Tunnel, Rye Waldman called out to see if Hui Hu was ready for a spray of cold water.

«The people who left behind these clues were members of a small group of pioneer mobile hunter gatherers who repopulated north - west Europe towards the end of the last Ice Age with the rapid onset of a warmer climate (the Lake Windermere Interstadial) and the development of open grassland vegetation.

When the U.S. military abandoned Camp Century, a complex of tunnels dug into the ice of northwest Greenland, in the mid-1960s, they left behind thousands of tons of waste, including hazardous radioactive and chemical materials.