Sentences with phrase «through ice cracks»

This makes it possible to precisely measure the altitude of the ocean water which reaches the surface through ice cracks and openings.

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Spring has started to melt a way through the giant frozen expanse of this archipelago in western Finland, as cracks in the ice turn into rust - coloured pools around wooden jetties in a sign of the coming summer.

The rear treads had broken through a crack in the sea ice and were sinking into the cold water.

The discovery of waterlogged minerals and a growing ice wall suggests that the dwarf planet could harbor underground liquid water or slushy brine, which has escaped through cracks and craters in the recent past and may still be seeping out today.

This means shedding any heat they gain from the air and the ground, from water that infiltrates through cracks, and from friction generated as the ice advances.

«This means that more water can go through the cracks and eat the ice away,» says Adrien Gilbert, a UiO glaciologist who described his team's findings at the Third Pole Science Summit last July in Kunming, China.

In order to create a cryovolcano, says O'Brien, the water pressure needs to build up enough to launch up through the shell before the ice cracks and relieves the pressure.

The weight of the water then drives the cracks through the ice, causing it to shatter.

The researchers propose that, unlike in Antarctica where surface temperatures remain below freezing all year round, the newly discovered lakes are most likely fed by melting surface water draining through cracks in the ice.

It's not clear why the crack made it through the soft ice, and whether other rifts will follow suit in the coming years.

Was it rock grinding on rock, ice groaning over ice, or, perhaps, hot gases and liquid rock forcing their way through cracks in a volcanic complex?

They discovered potentially revelatory harmonic properties of ice quakes, which are minor rumbles produced when cracks in the ice are reshaped by water flowing through them.

New ice rises up through the cracks to the surface, but where does the old ice go?

It is thought that this ice is coming up through features called dilational bands, which are long cracks on the surface.

This is important because added pressure from surface water filling crevasses can drive cracks right through the ice sheet.

The gas breaks through to the surface exploiting weaknesses and cracks in the ice forming geysers or jets.

They may be created by geysers that send water ice out through surface cracks.

As this water moves through rocks, it dissolves salt compounds and pushes through fractures in the overlying ice to form reservoirs closer the moon's surface, where it is expelled into space when the outermost layer of the crust cracks open and the resulting depressurization of these reservoirs causes water vapor and ice particles to shoot out in the observed plumes.

The situation is far more dire up in Shishmaref, where not only is ground disappearing but so are people, such as the son of an Eskimo who perished when he fell through a crack in the rapidly melting Arctic ice.

I took a step forward, and then another, the fragile crack of ice and gravel rippling through me.

Through the cracked ice of a massive iceberg and bullet hole in a glass window, he comes to the works based on the X-rays of paintings by van Gogh and the Old Masters.

I assume every glacier is different, so there's no single answer whether meltwater is successfully penetrating through cracks to the base and staying melted, and whether stresses in the ice are opening cracks further, and which glaciers have beds sloping downhill going inland

First, they press the ice down, so the bottom of the ice melts a bit more; then, they drain through cracks and the ice rebounds as the weight of the water goes down; the ice rebounding was thinned by bottom melting so it bounces up higher than the surrounding ice, causing cracks around the edge of the uplift; then, ice cubes!

This is the normal life cycle for a meltwater pond that forms from snow and ice, and eventually drains through cracks or hole through the ice it has pooled on.

In some cases, the water percolates through cracks and is thought to speed the flow of ice to the sea; thus the resulting rise in sea levels.

The stunning blue meltwater lake that formed on the Arctic ice disappeared on Monday (July 29), draining through a crack in the underlying ice floe.

Numerous processes contribute to this, including the removal of buttressing ice shelves (i.e., ice tongues floating on water but in places anchored on islands or underwater rocks) or the lubrication of the ice sheet base by meltwater trickling down from the surface through cracks.

As the surface ice begins to melt, some of the water filters down through cracks in the glacier, lubricating the surface between the glacier and the rock beneath it.

Some of this meltwater infiltrated cracks in the ice, slicing through the shelf.

Surface meltwater can penetrate through cracks in the surface, and force them open, allowing large amounts of water to drain to the bed and spread out across the base of the ice sheet, lubricating it (Zwally et al. 2002).

Although only a tiny fraction of the ice shelf melts, the water infiltrates the shelf through small cracks in the ice.

No climate change: Huge iceberg threatens to break off from Larsen C Ice Shelf By Dr. Sebastian Lüning and Prof Fritz Vahrenholt (German text translated / edited by P Gosselin) Image: visibleearth.nasa.gov A huge crack recently formed through the Antarctic Larsen C ice sheIce Shelf By Dr. Sebastian Lüning and Prof Fritz Vahrenholt (German text translated / edited by P Gosselin) Image: visibleearth.nasa.gov A huge crack recently formed through the Antarctic Larsen C ice sheice shelf.

Scientists have found that on the Greenland Ice Sheet, the melt water penetrates through cracks in the ice down to the bedroIce Sheet, the melt water penetrates through cracks in the ice down to the bedroice down to the bedrock.

Through it all, the maps and photographs showed ice that looked cracked or shattered, often ponded with meltwater — ice that looked vulnerable.

Large cracks grow through Antarctic ice shelves as warmer ocean currents melt the towering glaciers from below.

As the ice melts, water begins to run down the side of the home and seeps through a crack in the vinyl siding, causing damage to the framing of the house.