Sentences with phrase «sheet of ice»

In 2002, however, the 600 - foot - thick sheet of ice crumbled, exposing the hidden depths.

When the sun's heat broke apart ice that had formed atop a pond, the wind pushed the large, yet thin, sheets of ice into the rocks.

But then, this massive sheet of ice began to melt.

Huge sheets of ice reflect solar radiation, keeping our planet cool.

It used to be kind of - more of a big sheet of ice, and now it's chunks of ice.

The result is a strong, but nearly clear sheet of ice.

Designed for glacier travel, the massive Ice Explorer is an all - terrain vehicle that'll take you directly on to a 10,000 year - old sheet of ice.

In the next room, you will notice two large sheets of ice, but you can't break them just yet.

Over thousands of years, the layers of snow build up, forming a flowing sheet of ice thousands of feet thick and tens to thousands of miles across.

The great sheets of ice that reflected away sunlight could persist only if they rested on land, not ocean.

A closer view of Larsen B (above) from March 7, 2002, reveals that what looks like a solid sheet of ice in

A thick sheet of ice covers one half, and water runs over sharp boulders on the other.

That afternoon I walked cautiously toward Dr. Burt's truck, through streams of tears and across a solid sheet of ice on the ground.

Today, Antarctica is fringed by floating sheets of ice that grow in winter and shrink in summer.

Having been born and raised in Minneapolis suburb St. James Park, the Coens also pinpoint the with its Great White Northern - style culture (hockey and hearty homestyle buffets) and weather that serves as a metaphor: white skies, blankets of snow, and sheets of ice creating an existential void that particularly bedevils Jerry (who cracks while trying to scrape ice off his windshield).

From new mission types and weapons, new ship parts and functions (like a modified ram that cuts through sheets of ice), new towns and places to explore like New York and the Artic, and new collectables and mini-games, Rogue takes the best elements from Assassin's Creed III and Black Flag and adds a couple of new elements to the mix to make it a very solid and compelling experience.

The Larsen B ice shelf on the peninsula's east side is a floating sheet of ice about 200 meters thick.

Researchers have identified eight, massive sheets of ice just below the Martian surface, and they appear to be relatively young deposits.

This is probably nilas — thin sheets of ice with an oily or greasy appearance.

Guests looking to connect with nature can track caribou by snowshoe or, in March, view giant sheets of ice floating down Iceberg Alley from Greenland to the North Atlantic.

Europe and America are moving away from one another; the Scandinavian countries, once weighed down by enormous sheets of ice, are now rising.

An underground sheet of ice in the mountains of Transylvania has given scientists a glimpse of climate changes in prehistoric Europe that helped humans settle that part of the continent.

So the flooded sheet of ice is not what you have in a curling game, but it's definitely important from a scientific point of view.

Sometimes the entire sheet of ice below the camp can jerk and lurch.

Once a thin sheet of ice forms on a lake in Antarctica, a «race» begins between (1) ice growing downward, and (2) snow building upward.

This could mean you shoveled just enough snow off your walk to expose the underlying sheet of ice, and knowingly didn't take any action to remove the ice, resulting in a hazardous condition that you had a duty to mitigate or to prevent.

Almost exactly a year ago, a 251 - square - kilometer sheet of ice broke from the Petermann Glacier in Greenland and started slowly drifting into the open ocean.

Erosion carved these icy blue cliffs from sheets of ice just below Mars's layer of dust (Science, DOI: 10.1126 / science / aao1619).

At 104 square miles, Glacier Grey forms less than three percent of the 4,773 - square - mile sheet of ice stretching across southern Chile and Argentina.

Holding my dreams in my heart, with a vision of leaping once again on a glassy sheet of ice, I embraced a plant - based diet and started eating vegan!

«We would also like to add a second sheet of ice to offer more rink time to our figure - skating classes, the Jaguar Youth Hockey team, and the public, who have only 1 1/2 hours of rink time on Fridays and Sundays.

«These people all commissioned demographic studies that showed they need a year - round sheet of ice.»

While the rink is a simple wintertime joy for young children, teens on a first date and state workers looking for a mid-day getaway, maintaining the 123 - foot - by -112-foot sheet of ice requires a lot more science — and thermodynamics is just one necessary subsection — than just figuring out where to aim a garden hose to build the ice back up.

Here's a glimpse of the theorem in action: Imagine a hockey puck gliding along a perfectly smooth, endless and frictionless sheet of ice.

For millions of years, Antarctica, the frozen continent at the southern end of the planet, has been encased in a gigantic sheet of ice.

A few days later, back at her office whiteboard, she thought about the collapsed sheet of ice above each lake, full of giant fractures like the ones above Grimsvotn.

Scientists have long wondered if the moon's vast subsurface ocean, sandwiched between a rocky mantle and a global sheet of ice, could prove as habitable as Earth's early oceans.

This information could help scientists better understand the status and stability of ice shelves, which are permanently floating sheets of ice connected to landmasses.

The compression fuses old, buried snowflakes together until they become a dense, rock - hard sheet of ice.

Reading Robert Pondiscio's recent article («The Left's drive to push conservatives out of education reform») calls to mind Al Gore's «An Inconvenient Truth» and its powerful image of a polar bear drifting helplessly on a shrinking sheet of ice in a warming sea.

The new graphics system provided by the brand new Gepard3 Engine allowed developer Stormregion to create a large variety of different surfaces such as, for example, reflecting puddles which disappear over time, vehicles which become wet with rain or glistening sheets of ice.

In this aquatic adventure, mankind has been trapped under the ocean by an impenetrable sheet of ice.

A bright white sheet of ice generally has a high albedo, but melting makes the surface darker and less able to reflect away the Sun's energy.

An emaciated polar bear is seen on a small sheet of ice in this image taken in August in Svalbard, north of mainland Norway.

LONDON, 17 December, 2016 — East Antarctica, the supposedly stable sheet of ice that makes up the greater part of the Southern Continent, may not be so stable after all.

Unfortunately, he did this in the dead of winter, creating a hazardous sheet of ice.

In the same gallery, Eric Aho's Ice Cut turns a hole in a thick sheet of ice into a forceful void, and Yvonne Jacquette's birdseye view of a cove in Maine delineates the tide into a rhythmic composition of bending, parallel blue lines.