Sentences with phrase «resulting glacier advance»
Because glaciers move slowly, however, a time lag can occur between the changing climatic conditions and the resulting glacier advance or retreat.
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The changes to our planet as a result of global warming are apparent for all to see: the receding glaciers in temperate climates, the reduction in rainfall and advancing deserts in Africa and the lakes in the Mideast and Asia that are virtually disappearing.
The results indicate that glaciers in equatorial East Africa advanced between 24,000 and 20,000 years ago at the coldest time of the world's last ice age.
Warmer winters and cooler summers results in more snowfall during the winter and less melt during the summer allowing glaciers to advance.
Taku is the world's thickest known temperate alpine glacier, and experienced positive mass balance between the years 1946 and 1988, resulting in a huge advance.