Sentences with phrase «systems flowing beneath»

Scientists analyzing satellite data were astonished to discover the size of the vast lakes and river systems flowing beneath the Antarctic ice sheets, which may lubricate the movement of these glaciers as they flow into the surrounding sea.

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The crustal basement weakness extends south - westerly of Wattenberg beneath the Rocky Mountains, where the same high heat flow system has contributed to extensive mineral deposits.

However, Professor Stewart believes that over a few millennia those sea level rises could have caused the fault system beneath and around Mount Etna to completely change in behaviour, sealing up old lava flows and ultimately forcing them to emerge elsewhere on the island.

Jupiter's largest moon, Ganymede, has solidified its membership in the growing cadre of solar system locales where liquid water flows beneath the surface.

Examples include modular seawalls that can be raised as needed; prefabricated highway bridges that can be elevated as peak flows beneath them rise; and floating intake systems at water treatment plants, designed to rise and fall as reservoir levels change.

We suggested that, given the documented flow of water beneath the ice sheet, perhaps sub-glacial rivers carried in the microbes, and Tranter responded, «People would have laughed at you a decade ago, but there is a river system under the ice sheet.

The radical technical changes include, an intelligent valve control, a back pressure - optimized double - flow exhaust system fitted beneath the floor of the vehicle, as well as resonator tuning specific to M Performance.

Submerged beneath the gallery floor, the artist creates a haunting, elegiac experience, as the sounds of flowing water as it bubbles and gurgles through a self - contained sewer system penetrate the otherwise quiet reverence of the gallery space.

This is our basic wind system from the equator to the poles, hot air rises at the equator and flows to the poles and the cold air at the poles sinks beneath, flowing back to the equator.

Many of the flow systems seem to start in the Antarctic mountains, near outcrops of exposed rock, or in places where fierce winds have scoured snow off the ice beneath.