Sentences with phrase «under kilometers of ice»

So it is difficult, says Grzymski, to imagine how these organisms might survive in the dark, under kilometers of ice.

Because 20,000 years ago, Boston was under a kilometer of ice, which didn't get there without there being lots of snow over a long period of time.

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This tidal energy produces more than enough internal heat to create a global water ocean, possibly as thick in places as 50 kilometers, buried under an outer layer of ice a few kilometers thick.

«Before, we only expected to find fluid under a hundred or hundreds of kilometers of ice,» Eicken says.

«But now, potentially, it's under just a few kilometers of ice.»

Scientists have drilled into one of the most isolated depths in all of the world's oceans: a hidden shore of Antarctica that sits under 740 meters of ice, hundreds of kilometers in from the sea edge of a major Antarctic ice shelf.

Scientists find translucent fish in a wedge of water hidden under 740 meters of ice, 850 kilometers from sunlight

Scientists estimate the ocean is 60 miles (100 kilometers) thick — 10 times deeper than Earth's oceans — and is buried under a 95 - mile (150 - kilometer) crust of mostly ice.

But any life in Europa's ocean, under 10 or 20 kilometers of ice, would have to use another source of energy.

Nestled in a rocky pocket under 4 kilometers of glacial ice, Lake Vostok's waters have never been sampled.

Last year, a study of its gravitational field hinted at a 10 - kilometer - thick regional ocean around the south pole lying under an ice crust some 30 to 40 kilometers deep.

Below the ocean may be a few hundred miles (or kilometers) of a heavier form of ice that may exist under higher pressures on above a rocky core roughly 1,800 to 2,100 miles (3,000 to 3,400 km (more from Cassini news release; Lorenz et al, Science, March 21, 2008; Richard A. Kerr, ScienceNOW Daily News, March 20, 2008; David Shiga, New Scientist, March 20, 2008; and Charles Q. Choi and Andrea Thompson, Space.com/MSNBC, March 20, 2008).

Dividing 3 meters into the volume of ice that our volcano melted, we find that it would cover an area of just under 30 billion meters square, or a little less than 30 thousand square kilometers.

I believe the average life span of a glacial period is 90,000 years and often features NYC under more than a kilometer thick of ice.

The only problem with all the predictions about the level of the World Ocean rising is that, the World Ocean is refusing to rise up in support of the predictions, the other problem is that ice is frozen fresh water and frozen fresh water only covers about 5 % of this planet above sea level and frozen water under the level of the World Ocean does not count as the World Ocean will fall a small amount if that ice melts, so if the ice there is enough to get the World Ocean to rise and significant amount then it must be piled up very high, I cubic kilometer of water as ice, should it melt, would make 1000 square kilometers rise by one meter, so when you use this simple math then somewhere on the planet, above the level of the sea, then there must be over 500,000 cubic kilometers of ice, piled up and just waiting to melt, strange that no one can find that amount of ice, all these morons who talk about the rise of the World Ocean in tens of meters, this includes you Peter Garrett or Mr. 7 Meters, the ice does not exist to allow this amount of rise in the World Ocean, it is just not there.