Sentences with phrase «sheets of ice creating»

Before Parzinger opened his grave, the warrior had lain for more than 2,000 years on an ice lens, a sheet of ice created by water seeping through the grave and freezing against the permafrost below.

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Further, the less time an ice sheet has to create new layers of ice each winter, the less strong ice is created and built into centuries of previous strong sea ice, leaving ever more vulnerable and easy - to - melt sea ice.

Every year in the central area of the Greenland Ice Sheet a layer of ice is created separated by a line of duIce Sheet a layer of ice is created separated by a line of duice is created separated by a line of dust.

This time I created steam in my oven by putting ice cubes on a hot cookie sheet on the bottom rack of my oven as the bread was rising.

The equipment captured images of the seafloor, including geological formations created by the ice sheet.

Radar images show that water under the base of the ice sheet refreezes into ice, creating a new bottom layer that accounts for up to half the total thickness of the ice sheet in some locations.

• One is that the cold air above the Laurentide Ice Sheet created a tremendous high pressure system that shifted the polar jet stream to the south, pushing the track followed by winter storms down into the Southwest, which had the effect of dramatically reducing the amount of rainfall in the Northwest while increasing it in the Southwest.

The researchers used a range of data of other ice sheet dynamics, like snowfall and surface velocity of ice, to create a more detailed overview of Greenland's topography.

The research shows that volcanic eruptions beneath a glacial ice sheet would have created substantial amounts of liquid water on Mars's surface around 210 million years ago.

The P - 3 Orion, based at NASA's Wallops Flight Facility in Virginia, will carry IceBridge's most comprehensive instrument suite: a scanning laser altimeter that measures surface elevation, three types of radar systems to study ice layers and the bedrock underneath the ice sheet, a high - resolution camera to create color maps of polar ice, and infrared cameras to measure surface temperatures of sea and land ice.

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.

Now one could argue that an impact of that sort, onto either the open waters of the St. Lawrence or the Laurentide ice sheet, could have vaporized a good deal of water and ice, thus creating a large tsunami that funneled up the St. Lawrence and then broke through to glacial Lake Vermont, and then set off a chain of events that lead to the draining of Lake Vermont and Lake Agassiz, and that could very well satisfy the proxy evidence in the Younger Dryas boundary layer.

A November ice storm then created a sheet of ice that prevented runoff from being absorbed into the soil.

«One of the things that troubles me most is that the rapid - fire publication of unsettled results in highly visible venues creates the impression that the scientific community has no idea what's going on,» said W. Tad Pfeffer, an expert on Greenland's ice sheets at the University of Colorado.

According to the NASA press release, the study «adds evidence that a geothermal heat source called a mantle plume lies deep below Antarctic Marie Byrd Land, explaining some of the melting that creates lakes and rivers under the ice sheet.»

Scientists think mantle plumes are thin streams of heated rock that makes its way upward, melting ice and creating rivers and lakes of meltwater under Antarctica's western ice sheet.

For example, a D - O cooling occurred in the midst of the last warm period at about 122,000 years ago, when there were no ice sheets in Canada to create icebergs.

Researchers believe the Gamburtsev Subglacial Mountains, which are underneath the huge East Antarctic Ice Sheet, may have been created after a series of dramatic tectonic events.

We are already in territory that will melt catastrophic portions of the polar ice sheets, and create havoc with weather extremes, agriculture, and infrastructure around the world in coming decades.

A new NASA study adds evidence that a geothermal heat source called a mantle plume lies deep below Antarctica's Marie Byrd Land, explaining some of the melting that creates lakes and rivers under the ice sheet.

Presenting such alternative figures confuses and undermines the public understanding of the actual science, which is an understanding about the driving mechanisms of sea level rise: thermal expansion of ocean water, melting of mountain glaciers and complex dynamics of large ice sheets — in correspondence again with projected temperature rise, that is in turn a product of projected rises of greenhouse gas concentrations using calculated estimates of climate sensitivity, together creating a net disturbance in Earth's energy balance, the very root cause of anthropogenic climate change.

My research on the Pliocene centers on the relative roles of altered ocean circulation and greenhouse gases in creating the period's increased temperatures and sea levels, as well as its reduced sea ice and continental ice sheets.

Some scientists believe that global warming could shut down this ocean current system by creating an influx of freshwater from melting ice sheets and glaciers into the subpolar North Atlantic Ocean.

A prerequisite was the growth of very large Northern Hemisphere ice sheets, whose subsequent collapse created stadial conditions that disrupted global patterns of ocean and atmospheric circulation.

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