Sentences with phrase «solid sheet of ice»

The sea ice cap, which used to be a solid sheet of ice, is now fragmented into smaller floes that are exposed to warm water on more sides.

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

«The sea ice cap, which used to be a solid sheet of ice, now is fragmented into smaller floes that are more exposed to warm ocean waters.

A closer view of Larsen B (above) from March 7, 2002, reveals that what looks like a solid sheet of ice in the wider view is actually composed of thousands of icebergs that have broken free.

Not exact matches

Solids transmit sound efficiently: The grinding of Europa's thick ice sheets would make the surface of that Jovian moon far from library - quiet to an astronaut there.

Under the ice sheet the methane became stored as hydrate, a solid form of frozen methane.

The Ross Ice Shelf, a thick, floating tongue of solid ice the size of Spain, is the biggest of the many such barriers that ring Antarctica and keep its ice sheets from sliding into the sIce Shelf, a thick, floating tongue of solid ice the size of Spain, is the biggest of the many such barriers that ring Antarctica and keep its ice sheets from sliding into the sice the size of Spain, is the biggest of the many such barriers that ring Antarctica and keep its ice sheets from sliding into the sice sheets from sliding into the sea.

Were the ice present in the form of a solid sheet or chunks, the dips in the numbers of epithermal neutrons would be much greater.

Answering that question requires a solid understanding of the factors that affect the Antarctic ice sheet's behavior — how it adds and loses ice.

Focus of Study I investigate the structural architecture of the Earth, how continents rift, and the interaction of the solid Earth and ice sheets in Antarctica.

A numerical model of interactions between a marine ice sheet and the solid earth: Application to a West Antarctic ice stream.

Focus of Study I am a geophysicist interested in the dynamics of tectonic processes that cause earthquakes and build mountains and the geodynamics of solid earth - ice sheet interactions.

This is especially true in one sequence in which he brings the ship to «crush depth» only to order an incredible fast surface into a solid sheet of thick ice.

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.

Ian Joughin made some statements recently [context] that I thought were pretty solid about it being a few centuries before this kind of very rapid sea level rise can take place and that makes sense to me because there are some very important things that you have to do in order to turn on the rapid response of the Antarctic ice sheet — you have to get rid of a couple of big ice shelves for starters.

When a large ice sheet grows in a location, such as happened at the Last Glacial Maximum (LGM) about 20,000 years ago, the weight of the ice deforms the solid Earth beneath it.

However the deformation of the solid Earth by ice sheet loading is so extensive that both the elastic crust and plastic mantle are involved.

Losses from surface melting, water runoff, the breakup of glaciers into the ocean (calving), and the transformation of solid ice into water vapor (sublimation) exceed any gains through snowfall.2, 3,4,5 The Greenland ice sheet loses most of its mass on the perimeter, through a dozen fast - moving glaciers, including Helheim.5, 6

Cryosphere All regions on and beneath the surface of the Earth and ocean where water is in solid form, including sea ice, lake ice, river ice, snow cover, glaciers and ice sheets, and frozen ground (which includes permafrost).

What Alley skips over so glibly is all of the complicated processes that go on within the ice sheet, starting from the highest level where new snow coats the surface and continuing down into the debths through the compacting firn into the «solid» ice beneath.

An extreme melt in 2012 left a sheet of solid ice, several metres thick, on top of the porous firn, in some places.