Sentences with phrase «snow pits with»

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They would bring back huge blocks of ice and snow to their village on horseback or by boat and place it in large dug out pits where the ice would be packed and insulated with grasses, leaves and furs.

In trying to explain the apparent decline in reflectivity, lead author Chris Polashenski, an adjunct assistant professor at Dartmouth's Thayer School of Engineering and a research geophysicist at the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers Cold Regions Research and Engineering Laboratory, and his colleagues analyzed dozens of snow - pit samples from the 2012 - 2014 snowfalls across northern Greenland and compared them with samples from earlier years.

The comet appears to have undergone visible changes, including the changes in the size and number of surface features such as smooth patches, pits, and craters, and the loss of ice vaporized by the Sun or blasted off its surface by the Solar Wind into its tail as well as failing back on the object like snow, so that it appears to shrink, on average, by 25 to 50 centimeters (9.2 to 19.7 inches) with each orbit around the Sun.

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To destroy her, Snow hatches a plan with new game maker Plutarch Heavensbee (Philip Seymour Hoffman) to have a new Hunger Games that will pit Katniss and Peeta against tributes reaped from a pool of former winners.

Not satisfied with the job Katniss has done on her tour, Snow and his new head gamemaker Plutarch Heavensbee (Philip Seymour Hoffman) devise a cruelly clever plan: For the 75th Hunger Games, they'll pit a bunch of former winners against each other.

The excitement of the natural world, from a thrilling lightning storm to butterflies «untethered from earth,» is a child's joyful discovery in this poetry collection, which is filled with fun action rooted in physicality, whether it is shooting a cherry - pit missile or making frozen angels in the snow.

When home she loves to cuddle with her 10 year old Pit / Lab mix named Snow.

The surface mass balance (SMB) results show a very favourable correlation (r ^ 2 > 0.90) with more than 500 SMB observations all over the ice sheet, from firn cores, snow pits, etc..