Sentences with phrase «sea ice age through»
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Despite the rising sea level and therefore increasing pressure, the simulation showed that towards the end of the ice age large amounts of gas hydrate became unstable and the released gas escaped through the sediment to the seawater.
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«At the end of the last ice age around 11,000 years ago, the ice sheet went through a period of rapid, sustained ice loss when changes in global weather patterns and rising sea levels pushed warm water closer to the ice sheet — just as is happening today,» NASA said.
The area and depth of the ponds depends on sea ice age (internal structure as well as surface topography), and ponds that melt completely through are called melt holes.
The latest ice age product (Figure 1), provided by Maslanik for June 21, 2010, shows the same lobe of old ice extending through the Beaufort Sea and into the Chuckhi Sea that was seen in the end of April product (see June report).
From then through till the late 19th century, during the cooler period known as the Little Ice Age, sea level rise halted.