Sentences with phrase «under glaciers»

It was amusing a while back that the goracle couldn't make it to a speech because of inclement weather, but take this to its logical conclusion: some day he won't be able to go to a speech because there won't be any audience to go to the speech — they're all trying to stay warm under the glaciers.

The land now occupied by Toronto and Chicago used to be parked under glaciers 100 feet high.

Some scientists claim geothermal heating under the glaciers the cause?

Trees and old human artefact are being found under glaciers as they shrink back to a more NORMAL size.

The tree line was hundreds of meters higher 3000 years ago, we still find remnants of trees under glaciers.

The Viking settlements did not get buried under glaciers (Google Hvalsey Church).

Alastair notes that increased water vapour will carry more energy to the surface of the glaciers, likewise these increased water flows over, through and under the glaciers is also transferring vast amounts of energy into the ice.

Such shapes form when gas bubbles expand in molten rock that then catastrophically explodes — a feature of violent eruptions involving water, and which can be seen under glaciers in Iceland, for example, researchers said.

Also in the mid-1990s, another group of scientists proposed the now widely accepted mechanism for how lakes can form under glaciers: Heat radiating from Earth's interior is trapped under the thick, insulating ice sheet, and pressure from the weight of all the ice above it lowers the melting point of the ice at the bottom.

A study in the journal Science shows that microbes have long survived under glaciers in Antarctica making do with nothing but sulfates and iron from the bedrock.

These detailed maps of the landmass under the glaciers show that the retreat can't be stopped.

Such shapes form when gas bubbles expand in molten rock that then catastrophically explodes — a feature of violent eruptions involving water, and which can be seen under glaciers in Iceland, for example.

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.

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.

Hensch said the biggest risk in Iceland itself was from flood waves from any eruption under the glacier.

On Sunday, Iceland lowered its warning code for possible volcanic disruption to the aviation industry to orange from red, the highest level on the country's five - point alert system, after concluding that seismic activity had not led to a volcanic eruption under the glacier.

Because, and this is the crux of the new paper, scientists have discovered deep channels where warmer water can flow right under the glacier.

The estimates are quite variable because of the difficulty in measuring these things in a difficult part of the world and the complexity of the processes (ice berg calving; under ice shelve melting, snow blowing, under glacier melt etc.).

And there I say that the mark in stone or the carbon - dated tree stump from under the glacier trumps the model simulation every time, because these are empirical data while the model simulation is not.

The Post also reported first result that deep ocean waters under the glacier are heating up.

She has ducked under a glacier in Switzerland and poked hot lava with a stick in Hawaii.

Not exact matches

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An extreme worker, Russel trained under the famed French instructor Georges Joubert, and he spent his last seven summers bombing down a glacier near Alpe d'Huez.

Just over 1 % of our planet's glaciers — some 2300 in all — are known to undergo these precipitous movements, though the number is likely to rise as glaciers come under closer surveillance by remote sensing.

Bárðarbunga is located beneath the giant Vatnajökull glacier in the center of the island; this particular eruption is occurring under a northern offshoot, the Dyngjujökull glacier.

In New Zealand, wood has been found under glacial debris dating to the Younger Dryas, suggesting that glaciers responded to the event by growing.

There have been thousands of small earthquakes over the past week at Bardarbunga, which is Iceland's largest volcanic system and located under the ice cap of a glacier.

Iceland's Bárðarbunga volcano, buried under the giant Vatnajökull glacier, has been holding scientists in suspense over the last 2 weeks, producing frequent seismic rumbles but no signs yet of an actual eruption.

In contrast to glaciers and ice sheets, which sit on the ground, ground ice sits in the ground, mixed with frozen soil or buried under layers of sediment.

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.

In the first paper, UCI's Morlighem used the OMG surveys to improve maps of the bedrock under some of the West Coast glaciers.

For Mars, this meant a thin carbon dioxide atmosphere with what little water remained trapped in frozen lakebed glaciers buried under oxidized iron soil, or in seasonal floes of brine mixed with trace amounts of water.

This is because the campaign's seafloor survey revealed features under the ocean, such as troughs cut by glaciers during the last ice age, which must continue upstream under the glacial ice.

Bardarbunga is Iceland's largest volcanic system, located under the ice cap of the Vatnajokull glacier in the southwest of Iceland.

While the vast majority of glaciers are now in retreat, a few down under have been growing and shrinking like a bunch of yo - yo dieters.

The climate change and melting [of glaciers and polar ice] issue is obviously something that's apparently under way and can not be turned on a dime.

These shifts may include rising sea levels, stronger tropical cyclones, the loss of soil moisture under higher temperatures, more intense precipitation and flooding, more frequent droughts, the melting of glaciers and the changing seasonality of snowmelt.

Such lakes of water pool at the bottom of an ice sheet or glacier, and were known to be scattered under parts of Antarctica.

Understanding how layers of air insulate the surface of glaciers, for example, is vital to making accurate estimates of how fast they will melt — and sea levels will rise — as the Earth warms under its blanket of greenhouse gases.

When salt is buried under heavier rocks, it rises buoyantly in vast sheets and fingers; it may even fountain aboveground and flow like a glacier.

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.»

Now, Bindschadler and other researchers are heading out to fetch some of the first temperature data from under the Pine Island Glacier ice shelf, the outlet of one of the largest and fastest moving glaciers in Antarctica, in hopes of understanding what is happening beneath it.

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.

These glaciers typically move via basal sliding or subglacial deformation under wet (warm)- based ice in the accumulation area, but only by internal ice deformation in the colder parts.

Thwaites, meanwhile, also continues to rank among of the fastest - shrinking glaciers, and has seen its grounding line retreat rate increase slightly compared to the earlier period, which Konrad said «should emphasize once more that this glacier is under threat.»

The researchers then ran their ice sheet model to simulate how the glaciers responded to global temperature rise under a

The researchers then ran their ice sheet model to simulate how the glaciers responded to global temperature rise under a medium - high emissions scenario.

I suppose that as the under side of the glacier melts, the resulting fresh water mixes with the adjacent salt water, making it lighter and causing it to flow upwards along the under side of the ice.

Snow falls on glaciers, which flow downstream under gravity.

Under warming conditions glaciers may contribute as much as more than half a meter by 2100.»