Sentences with phrase «such glacial lake»

The researchers who analyzed and remixed Gornergletscher's vibrating signals say their findings could help forecast such glacial lake outburst floods.

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In a warming world, the threat of such «glacial lake outburst floods» is becoming increasingly urgent.

There are ways to monitor when the dam of a glacial lake might break: Scientists track the lake's depth, the geological composition and geometry of its dam, and other factors, such as melting rate and steepness of adjacent glaciers.

Once the bottom of a large glacial lake, these rolling sand hills are home to vegetation such as lodgepole pines as well as plant species that arrived via Berengia thousands of years ago.

The geography of the Hudson Valley is immensely rich: The terrain features sandstone, red beds, granite cliffs, dense forests and charming lakes, as well as highly fertile soil for farming, such as in the Black Dirt Region created from an ancient glacial lake, and a rich biodiversity of flora and fauna.

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It seems unlikely, for example, that the salinity of a particular ocean location will change dramatically from one period to another unless the two time periods are separated by tens of millions of years (through moving continents) or there's some extraordinary temporary event (such as the emptying of a large glacial lake) just before one of the two measuring points.

In his address to the gathering, Pakistan Minister for Climate Change Mushahidullah Khan said that people in Pakistan living in around the HKH region are annually affected by a number of climate hazards such as glacial lake outburst floods (GLOFS), avalanches, landslides and heat waves, which result in massive human and material losses.