Sentences with phrase «thick sheet of ice»

In 2002, however, the 600 - foot - thick sheet of ice crumbled, exposing the hidden depths.

But there's liquid water elsewhere in the solar system; it's buried under thick sheets of ice on moons,» Francis Nimmo, a planetary scientist with the University of California at Santa Cruz, told Discovery News.

Based on previous research on ice core, marine, and sediment records, researchers determined that for the past 800,000 years, Northern Hemisphere ice ages — in which vast areas of North America, Europe, and Asia are covered with thick sheets of ice — occurred about every 100,000 years.

The last time the earth averaged a few degrees colder, most of North America was covered in a mile thick sheet of ice.

At the peak of the last ice age, about 20,000 years ago, with New York City and large parts of Europe and Asia buried under thick sheets of ice, Earth's orbit shifted.

The water soon freezes, forming a thick sheet of ice down the mountainside.

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

Using your senses, you will notice a lot of the Zoras are frozen under the thick sheet of ice.

In the same gallery, Eric Aho's Ice Cut turns a hole in a thick sheet of ice into a forceful void, and Yvonne Jacquette's birdseye view of a cove in Maine delineates the tide into a rhythmic composition of bending, parallel blue lines.

Are we sure the consequences of climate change — remember, a thick sheet of ice once covered the Middle West — must be bad?