Sentences with phrase «thick ice cover»

The unusually thick ice cover took ships by surprise.

Additionally, cold weather, thick ice cover, and a lack of sunlight will slow the breakdown of spilt oil.

This hypothesis would be in line with the biomarker data from the central Arctic Ocean sites PS2200 - 5 and PS51 / 038 -3 pointing to a more closed and thick ice cover that has prevented both phytoplankton as well as sea ice algae production (Figs. 2a, b, 3b).

After an unusually warm January, Slovenia was hit by sleet; some areas ended with 10 - centimeter thick ice cover.

After a week of rumbling, Iceland's Bárðarbunga volcano began erupting yesterday, say scientists at the Icelandic Meteorological Office (IMO) in Reykjavik — although the eruption remained entirely under the thick ice covering the volcano.

The meters thick ice covering millions of square kilometers has enough thermal inertia to shrug off warm weather (at least it has for hundreds of thousands of years), but not resist a warming climate.

Despite the high temperatures observed in the area during June, it is likely that the cold winter contributed to a thicker ice cover that led to a later break up.

Another difference is that in 2013 there were areas of decreased concentration north of the Kara and Barents sea; this year, most of the Arctic sea ice prevails at higher concentrations, indicating a more consolidated and possibly thicker ice cover, which is more resilient to melt and retreat.

On the other hand, if you removed all the Nitrogen from the terrestrial atmosphere (which is not a «greenhouse gas»), you'd readily get a Snowball Earth with a mile thick ice covering all the oceans while if you put twice as much Nitrogen there, average surface temperature would rise to 314 K (41 °C) with no additional «greenhouse effect» needed whatsoever.

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1 Giant - sized Sara Lee pound cake, cold but not frozen 3 Klondike chocolate covered ice cream bars 12 - 16 egg whites 1 teaspoon cream of tartar 1 cup granulated sugar 1 wooden plank, 12» x 8» by 1 - inch thick Heavy duty aluminum foil to wrap the plank 1 8 - ounce jar of raspberry jam 1 8 - ounce jar of chocolate fudge sauce

A thick vanilla icing covers the top of the loaf and then is sprinkled with a few more cranberries.

It is so easy; just set your cake on a Trim «N Turn ® turntable and go around the cake with a ribbon of icing that is thick enough to ice the cake and cover any imperfections at the same time.

With the underside of half the cookies face up, spoon softened ice cream about 1/2 inch thick to cover one side.

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Halo Top ice cream mixed with real strawberries and rich cacao nibs make a thick and creamy Chocolate Covered Strawberry Shake.

The thick covering of ice and water might mess up some of the geological processes that, at least on Earth, help regulate the planet's temperature over long periods of time.

One massive ice sheet, more than 3 kilometres thick in places, grew in fits and starts until it covered almost all of Canada and stretched down as far as Manhattan.

The area, marked NEGIS, covers about 16 percent of the island's thick ice sheet.

At this time of the year, the Weddell Sea usually is covered with a thick layer of sea ice.

So as soon as the hail of asteroids stopped, Earth may have cooled to an average surface temperature of — 40 °F and a crust of ice as much as 1,000 feet thick may have covered the oceans.

From 500 feet up everything appeared in miniature except the giant ice shelves — seemingly endless expanses of ice, as thick as the length of several football fields, that float in the Southern Ocean, fringing the ice sheets that virtually cover the Antarctic landmass.

THE water beneath snow - covered ice 1 metre thick hardly seems like a good home for light - loving creatures.

At the time, 2 km thick ice - cover loaded what now is the ocean floor with heavy weight.

The Antarctic ice sheet, the thick layer of ice covering much of the continent, is anchored in place by its floating fringe, shelves of ice that jut out into the surrounding ocean.

Many speculate these landforms are present throughout Antarctica, buried beneath the thick layer of ice that covers 98 percent of the continent.

Researchers are now looking back to the history of Larsen A and B to understand what the future might hold for Larsen C, which covers 50,000 square kilometres with ice up to 350 metres thick.

On the outside they are covered by a thick layer of ice, and underneath this there is an ocean surrounding a rocky core.

«Yet our biomarker data show acceptable living conditions for phytoplankton and sea ice algae, namely open waters and seasonal ice cover — a wide difference to kilometre - thick ice,» says Rüdiger Stein.

«Historically, the Arctic had a thicker, more rigid sea ice that covered more of the Arctic basin, so it was difficult to tell whether El Niño had any effect on it,» said Richard Cullather, a climate modeler at Goddard.

Since the biomarker groups they investigated are based on algae — i.e., on plants that require light for photosynthesis — the absence of both groups is an important indicator of a very thick and largely contiguous ice cover.

«The ice responded much more dramatically to the «extreme weather» than it would have when the ice cover was thicker and more extensive back in the 1980s and earlier,» says Meier.

It is difficult to obtain fossil data from the 10 % of Earth's terrestrial surface that is covered by thick glaciers and ice sheets, and hence, knowledge of the paleoenvironments of these regions has remained limited.

The Greenland Ice Sheet covers an area roughly the size of Mexico and measures up to 3 km thick in some places.

Europa, a large satellite of Jupiter, is covered with a thick shell of ice crisscrossed with long, brownish or pinkish fractures.

After an extreme ice age known as snowball Earth, in which glaciers extended to the tropics and ice up to a kilometre thick covered the oceans, the melted ice formed a thick freshwater layer that floated on the super-salty oceans.

Not so long ago, the Arctic Ocean was covered by thick ice several years old.

In particular, they suspect that they may see a thicker snow cover on the Eurasian sea ice, but they will not be able to confirm it until IceBridge flies over.

Mount Belinda has begun erupting beneath its thick cover of polar ice, allowing scientists their first chance to examine an Antarctic lava flow in action.

As much a third of the glacial ice above the crater has melted — it had been up to 250 meters thick in spots — raising the level of a nearby river by nearly a meter and covering some roads.

Leaving aside the collapse of the Larsen - B ice shelf and other ice shelves in Antarctica, is it too simplistic to expect that dramatic changes should be anticipated first in the Arctic because it is sea covered by a few meters of sea ice and therefore more susceptible to change, in comparison to Antarctica (which is obviously land covered by glacial ice up to several kilometers thick in places)?

At the end of the last glacial maximum, when ice sheets reached their maximum extent 20,000 to 25,000 years ago, the ice covering Antarctica was even thicker than it is today.

The channel and the Lincoln Sea, at the northern tip of Greenland, are normally covered by a sheet of ice several meters thick until around July, Dyke said.

However, it's quite a different matter melting a long - lived massive ice sheet up to 1.5 km thick that covers over 70 % of the land surface (as happened at the end of the last glacial period), from melting isolated and much thinner ice caps / sheets that only cover about 11 % of the land surface (i.e. present - day).»

Virtually all of what is now Canada, together with considerable portions of the northern US, was covered with an ice sheet several kilometers thick.

This is enough to cover the British Isles with a 2 km thick ice sheet, every year.

And a «lot of water» here means hundreds or thousands of Earth oceans's worth of water, completely covering the silicate mantle of the planets, most likely in hundreds of km - thick high - pressure water ice layers, below thick liquid oceans or high - pressure steam atmospheres.

Further inland, the glaciers widen into a two - mile - thick reserve of ice covering an area the size of Texas.

A thick sheet of ice covers one half, and water runs over sharp boulders on the other.

Our fleet of XV Crosstreks look as bedraggled as the group of drivers, with front fascias hanging askew and a thick plaster of ice and grime covering the once bright assortment of white, green, and silver paint.

The process involved trawling a limited pool of readers and that pool often seemed covered by thick ice.