Sentences with phrase «of small icebergs»
So far the disentegration of smaller ice shelves on the Antartic Peninsula has increased the number of smaller icebergs, but not the large tabular icebergs that can travel quite far north.
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But you have just scratched the tip of the iceberg; as the main hurdle is scaling up fast and growing your small business into a big profitable business.
But they are just a small percentage, the tip of the iceberg, that managed to struggle above water.
But just as the iceberg is about 10 % visible to the eye, so the Mormon missionary lessons represent only a small, visible part of Mormon doctrine.
We prepped the veggies and mixed the dressing, and then I tossed half of the dressing with the iceberg lettuce in the salad bowl, and the other half with the chick peas in a smaller bowl.
But if we can react to situations and behaviors in a different way, we can start dealing with the part of the iceberg that's below the surface of the water, rather than just constantly addressing the small percentage that we can see above the water.
If you know anything about an iceberg, then you know the part that you see above the water is just a small fraction of it.
This boatload had gone unnoticed because astronomers previously assumed luminous traces of the galaxies in Coma indicated small, insignificant bodies, and not just the most visible central regions of otherwise very dim objects — the tips of galactic icebergs, as it were.
A cluster of over 11 «smaller» icebergs have also now formed, the largest of which is over 13 km long.
ONE HUNDRED YEARS AGO, during the night of April 14, 1912, the RMS Titanic collided with an iceberg, and in the small hours of the next day went down into the cold Atlantic Ocean with the loss of 1,517 lives.
By contrast, during the last ice age, hundreds of comparatively smaller icebergs broke free of the Antarctic Ice Sheet and drifted into Pine Island Bay.
These smaller icebergs had a v - shaped structure like the keel of a ship, and left long and deep single scars in the sea floor.
Keilis - Borok bases his work on the tip - of - the - iceberg premise that patterns of small seismic disturbances hint at the onset of much larger quakes.
All that was left of the massive ice shelf were small icebergs as far as the eye could see.
What we are seeing here are the hidden depths of the iceberg, not just the relatively small number that break through the surface waters to become cancer.»
Scientists had previously recognized this effect but had tracked only small icebergs shorter than 1 kilometer, said Grant Bigg, a professor in Earth systems science at the University of Sheffield in the United Kingdom.
Multiple smaller icebergs will also likely accompany the primary one, posing a threat to shipping routes near the southern tip of South America.
«Given that a small sample of examined genomes already suggests four independent fundamental substitutions, we probably are looking at the «tip of the iceberg» for these events.»
Researchers at Johnson & Johnson investigated «microbursts,» or small bursts of activity that can impact our energy levels, and found that purely physical acts are just the tip of the iceberg.
olive oil • 1 small onion, chopped • 1/2 teaspoon of sea salt • 1/4 teaspoon of black pepper • 1/2 teaspoon of garlic powder • 1/4 teaspoon of chili powder • Red pepper chili flakes to taste • One 15 ounce can of rinsed, unsalted black beans • Handful of chopped cilantro • 10 - 12 chilled lettuce cups, romaine or iceberg • Chopped tomatoes, for garnish • Chopped green onion, for garnish • Lime wedges for garnish
It's clear immediately that Payne is going for a nostalgic, unabashedly old - school feel, with the movie's black - and - white cinematography merely the tip of the iceberg in terms of its far - from - modern sensibilities - as Nebraska progresses at a seriously deliberate pace and, for the most part, emphasizes small, character - based moments over plot.
Small gains in student achievement may only be the tip of the iceberg.
I believe that we are experiencing the tip of the iceberg in school consolidation, but we are in a slow - moving ship and this year we will only see a slightly less small number of mergers and school closures.
I have to wait briefly while another of Land Rover's Scots clears a small iceberg from the floe, then it's down the steep, icy bank and into water that was made on a glacier.
Like it or not, the Internet has become a big influence on consumer shopping patterns; and while e-commerce still accounts for only a relatively small portion of pet product sales, industry experts almost universally agree that we are only seeing the tip of the iceberg when it comes to the impact that web - based retailing will have on the pet care category.
Visitors are encouraged to bring dog and cat treats, and small amounts of leafy lettuce (no iceberg lettuce) for rabbits and other small pets.
Sculptural white icebergs, ice floes and deep blue seas flank the barren, rocky coastlines, which are home to moss, lichens and small plants and an incredible abundance of marine mammals and seabirds.
This is just a small sample of nightlife attractions a Jamaican holiday conjures up for you — and this is just the tip of the iceberg (or ice cube).
But he also reassures us in his essay that, «There were a lot of «almosts» this round, many of whom could have made the cut, and while that usually is small consolation to those whose friends, dealers, and collectors don't see them on these pages, it should be comforting to know that this is only the tip of the iceberg of new scintillating artworks coming your way at a gallery, museum, or alternative space near you.»
One should remember that these shows, and an array of small paintings in the Friends» Room at the RA, represent only the tip of the iceberg — in prints and ceramics as well as painting.
While travelling to Ilulissat, a small town on the edge of Disko Bay in Greenland, her career hit a turning point when she discovered icebergs.
Installed in conjunction with the more traditional gallery exhibition, 33 °, the murals range from the humorous, an image of tourists wandering aimlessly across an aqua blue expanse, to a sobering, a black fissure opening stark and deep in what we are to assume is an arctic ice sheet, to the iconic, a lonely polar bear drifting on a small iceberg.
Ikonen has disseminated small and larger objects throughout The Chimney: a wetsuit for the tip of an iceberg, a lifejacket for a brick, eroded stones tied back together with strings, a video hidden in a suit, stairs leading up to cinder block windows...
The black iceberg rests somewhat uneasily on the top third of the white paper; the small triangular shape is reflected in water, all of which is rendered in warm, black ink.
The ships have been encountering small icebergs and rafts of sea ice since they passed through the Bering Strait last weekend, company officials say.
Energy fluxes into the ocean are a combination of radiative (LW + SW), sensible and latent (and a bunch of small terms associated with rivers, icebergs, sea ice etc.).
Thursday, Lakeside Organic Gardens of Watsonville shipped a small load of iceberg lettuce to New Leaf Community Market in Santa Cruz using cardboard boxes lined with a sustainable alternative.
The heavily crevassed ice on this small Greenland outlet glacier cascades down to the fjord water (bottom right), which is filled with icebergs and small bits of ice.
Scientists had previously recognized this effect but had tracked only small icebergs shorter than 1 kilometer, said Grant Bigg, a professor in Earth systems science at the University of Sheffield in the United Kingdom.
Gudmandsen — new Petermann ice island expected to enter Hall Basin within the next week; moderate flow of ice through Nares Strait including the Petermann ice island and smaller icebergs from Humboldt glacier will impact tourist vessels trying to reach Hans Island
Well, at least they didn't include a touchy - feely photo of mama polar bear and her cubs supposedly stranded on a small iceberg.
But as Exxon knows through the Exxon Valdez oil spill, in which the oil tanker veered off course into a rocky reef while trying to avoid small icebergs in Alaska's Prince William Sound in 1989, the presence of even a little ice makes navigation treacherous.
Livescience: When iceberg chunks break off of floating ice shelves, it can serve as dramatic proof of melting — and this traditionally has been considered the main way that these expanses of Antarctic ice become smaller.
Icebergs come in all shapes and sizes, from ice - cube - sized chunks to ice islands the size of a small country.
Ambitious and epic in scale, FROZEN PLANET will reveal an astonishing world filled with more creatures, variety, color and spectacle than ever imagined — including the birth of an iceberg bigger than the largest building on earth, a caterpillar with antifreeze in its veins, the greatest concentration of sea birds on the planet and tiny baby polar bears, who at birth are 25 % smaller than human babies.
Pepijn Bakker and colleagues combine observational records of iceberg - rafted debris with climate models to show that the climate fluctuations seen during the Holocene may have been driven by small variations in the discharge of freshwater from the Antarctic Ice Sheet, amplified through the climate system.
Given that Rosales had filed 385 lawsuits against small businesses for ADA violations, that was only the tip of the iceberg.
The law, like literature, was Hemingway's iceberg: the smallest rule was just the hint of a giant machination, a Rube Goldberg machine that spat out rights and evidentiary rules and administrative regulations.
This is just the tip of the iceberg on the benefits of Twitter for your small business.
This is only a small sampling of understanding the many responsibilities of medical billers, and is the tip of the iceberg of what you need to know to be able to do your job correctly!