Sentences with phrase «of ice cracking»

In the short time I was there, I witnessed the extreme melting rate first hand as the sound of ice cracking was an instant background noise while painting.

At a certain point, the woman lets go of the wheel, dazed, allowing the car to slowly maneuver itself onto a frozen lake, the sheet of ice cracking and giving way beneath her.

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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.

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

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.

After all the futile treatments and the succession of helpless doctors, when grief has come even before the death, you sit there with a little cracked ice for the patient's parched mouth and throat, and think... At last I can do this one little thing right.

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.

Ice buttery grapefruit zest — vanilla cookies with a simple grapefruit juice and powdered sugar icing then top with a roaster of pink toppings like Himalayan pink salt, dried rose petals, and cracked pink peppercorns.

Pour half of the ice into a freezer safe container and layer with graham crack crumbs.

Fill shaker with cracked ice, cover, and shake vigorously until outside of shaker is very cold, about 20 seconds.

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.»

@user5751924 — Russian exports (either via out - sourcing, or emigration, or malware, or cracking) of computer programming talent are on the scale of rocket launches, diamonds, and ice - breaking services — not on the scale of oil, steel, and natural gas.

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.

The cracking of the ice or the falling of pieces into the sea makes a noise like breakers or a distant discharge of guns, which may often be heard a short distance.

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

This lottery has inadvertently accumulated almost a century of data on the river's thaw, and a recent analysis of town records shows that the ice cracks about 5 days earlier than it used to.

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.

Icebergs that have calved off the edge of the glacier are visible floating out to sea — but so are cracks hundreds of kilometers inland from Jakobshavn, on what would otherwise be a flat expanse of ice.

«In that crack you have strong tidal flow, so it would be interesting to see what a real ice sheet does in an environment that's analogous in terms of the amplitude of the stresses and the temperatures of the ice,» Kite said.

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.

Although its surface is an airless landscape of cracked ice, all the evidence says that beneath that bleak shell is a liquid water ocean stretching hundreds of kilometres down to the rocky mantle below.

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.

A better understanding of how and why the Larsen C crack expanded so quickly could help scientists better predict the future of all Antarctic ice shelves, says Richard Alley, a glaciologist at Penn State.

Dozens of cracks neatly terminate along the suture zone near the Gipps Ice Rise.

The crack could break off a massive area of ice and threaten the ice shelf's stability.

The weight of the water then drives the cracks through the ice, causing it to shatter.

The parallels with the decline of Larsen B are striking, says Adrian Luckman, a glaciologist at Swansea University, UK, who heads a team that has monitored the Larsen C ice crack for several years.

They observed three types of ice losses, each with a distinctive and detailed sound signature: the splash of an ice block falling off into the water; the crack of a fragment sliding down the glacier's rough surface; and the soft thud of an underwater ice chunk breaking away and floating up, followed by a secondary impact as it surfaces.

This makes it possible to precisely measure the altitude of the ocean water which reaches the surface through ice cracks and openings.

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.

They also wrote of their fear of unknown noises — caused perhaps by ice cracking, animals, or the weather — and phenomena such as the aurora borealis.

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

Those regions, full of small cracks and crevices, would draw up even more water from below, which would then freeze and swell into soaring, solid domes of ice — the final piece of the Europa puzzle.

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.

Another sign that the ice must be thin is a new analysis of cracking patterns that reveals a telltale feature of Europa's tectonic cycle.

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