Sentences with phrase «seen under glaciers»

Such shapes form when gas bubbles expand in molten rock that then catastrophically explodes — a feature of violent eruptions involving water, and which can be seen under glaciers in Iceland, for example, researchers said.

Such shapes form when gas bubbles expand in molten rock that then catastrophically explodes — a feature of violent eruptions involving water, and which can be seen under glaciers in Iceland, for example.

Not exact matches

Thwaites, meanwhile, also continues to rank among of the fastest - shrinking glaciers, and has seen its grounding line retreat rate increase slightly compared to the earlier period, which Konrad said «should emphasize once more that this glacier is under threat.»

Scientists used a new technique to see how far water is intruding under West Antarctica's Pine Island and Thwaites glaciers, two of the biggest and most vulnerable glaciers on Earth.

Close - up of small glaciers from a previous image, as seen by HiRISE under the HiWish program.

«If we compare the rate that these glaciers have retreated in the last hundred years to the rate that they retreated when they disappeared between 8,000 and 7,000 years ago, we see the rate of retreat in the last 100 years was about twice what it was under this naturally forced disappearance,» D'Andrea said.

Now, the area where glaciers were «receding faster than in any other part of the world,» is, in fact, seeing statistically significant growth in the size of the glaciers over a substantial portion of the area under study.