Sentences with phrase «transported by glaciers»
Much of the dust deposit east of the Rockies arrived in the last ice age, which ended some 11,000 years ago, when particles that had been ground up and transported by glaciers were deposited by meltwater streams.
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However, some of the discoveries dug up were as alien as the rocks transported to the site by glaciers millions of years ago.
WHOI scientists were involved in the recently reported study of rapid draining of glacier meltwater lakes, but WHOI is also studying the transport of carbon sediments by ocean currents.
Erosion - The process of removal and transport of soil and rock by weathering, mass wasting, and the action of streams, glaciers, waves, winds and underground water.
New research by scientists at Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution (WHOI) highlights the role ocean circulation plays in transporting heat to glaciers.