Sentences with phrase «southern edge of the ice»

The pivotal line for rotation of the continent is along the southern edge of the ice and some associate the New Madrid Fault zone and increased earthquake activity with this line.

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At the peak of the last ice age, around 21,000 years ago, it was a volcanically active spot on the southern edge of the Bering Land Bridge.

And the number of polar bears in the southern edge of their range, the Hudson Bay, have drastically decreased as sea ice is present for shorter and shorter amounts of time, he notes.

The exhibition includes one of Thiel's largest works to date, a 30 - foot long, five - panel photograph of the leading edge of the Perito Moreno glacier in Los Glaciares National Park, which is part of the Southern Patagonian Ice Field, the third largest ice cap in the worIce Field, the third largest ice cap in the worice cap in the world.

I haven't read the papers and don't know what is happening with salinity in the rest of the Atlantic, but looking at your map it occurred to me that if there was increased freshwater in the Northern Ocean due to ice melting and increase salinity in the tropical Atlantic due to increased evaporation, couldn't a mixing effect at the southern edge of the Northern ocean as tropical water is circulated north show similar results?

The study also found that the Southern Ocean Circumpolar Current, which helps determine sea - ice extent, is steered by submerged ridges and canyons along the edge of the Antarctic continental shelf, rather than by global warming or other climatic conditions.

Each winter, it inhales cold air and causes a freeze up, then in the summer, it exhales a breath of older sea ice from the high Arctic into the seas on its southern edge.

Incorrect, «much of Greenland was» not «ice free», just a slightly larger portion around the southern tip of Greenland and some edge melting moving upwards north.

And this is at the southern edge of the sea ice, at the «hottest time» of the day.

and ii) The Southern Ocean is freshening because of increased rain and snowfall as well as an increase in meltwater coming from the edges of Antarctica's land ice (Zhang 2007, Bintanga et al. 2013).