Sentences with phrase «under a glacier found»
REYKJAVIK (Reuters)- Iceland lowered its warning code for possible volcanic disruption to the aviation industry to orange from red on Sunday after further analysis of an apparent eruption under a glacier found there had been no eruption after all.
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Specifically, the paper found that the same water that has been measured in the fjord is under the glacier, lending credence to the idea that the continuity of the glacier depends on the conditions outside the glacier in the fjord.
In New Zealand, wood has been found under glacial debris dating to the Younger Dryas, suggesting that glaciers responded to the event by growing.
The glacier is currently experiencing significant acceleration, thinning and retreat that is thought to be caused by «ocean - driven» melting; an increase in warm ocean water finding its way under the ice shelf.
One 2004 NASA - led study found that most of the glaciers they were studying «flow into floating ice shelves over bedrock up to hundreds of meters deeper than previous estimates, providing exit routes for ice from further inland if ice - sheet collapse is under way.»
The problem, according to NASA scientists, in West Antarctica, they haven't found any under - glacier mountain or ridge to stop glaciers there from pouring into the sea.
They found signs that ocean water is pushing miles deeper under the ice than we realized in near a location where both glaciers meet, raising some uncomfortable prospects about how their futures could be intertwined.
Contrary to the claim by Rose that «Hayley Fowler of Newcastle University, suggested that their draft did not mention that Himalayan glaciers in the Karakoram range are growing rapidly,» the Asia Chapter does include this finding under section 10.2.4.2 on page 477.
As glaciers in the Himalayas melt faster due to global warming, pollutants buried under them are finding their way down to the north Indian plains.
It's like the carbon - dated remains of tree stumps that are found under receding alpine glaciers, high above today's tree line.
The tree line was hundreds of meters higher 3000 years ago, we still find remnants of trees under glaciers.
Trees and old human artefact are being found under glaciers as they shrink back to a more NORMAL size.
Archeological evidences of human activities found under receding glaciers, don't support the claims of a «drastic» change on the climate.
For me, the most convincing actual physical evidence (living in Switzerland) is carbon - dated remains of old trees found under receding glaciers at altitudes far above today's tree - line.
Sure, there was warming and glaciers are receding, but the logical leap that this warming is because of humans is simply an unsubstantiated claim, even more so when considering that you can find Roman remains under receded glaciers in the Alps or Viking graves in thawed permafrost in Greenland.
However, there have been other studies in both the Swiss and Austrian alps (e.g. Schlüchter, Patzelt), which have found carbon - dated remains of trees under receding glaciers, supporting the conclusion that the glacial extent during the Roman Warm Period and the MWP (as well as during earlier warm periods) was less than today.