Sentences with phrase «under the glacier»

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

Some scientists claim geothermal heating under the glaciers the cause?

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.

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.

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.

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.

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

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

On Earth, raised ridges called «eskers» form when water flows under glaciers, depositing sediment.

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

Holland's Greenland mission has determined that warm water under icebergs and most likely under glaciers is at the root of rising global sea levels (as opposed to warm air).

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

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.

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.

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.).

There's ground under the glaciers in greenland.

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

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

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

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.

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.

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

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

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.

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

She says, «under the glacier, take a tree and mirrors... shapeshift»; tracing and dotting lost life, letting it go, splicing into the litany of her personal memories.

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.

We are warmer than in the depths of the little ice age 400 years ago but colder than a 1000 years ago unless trees in Alaska grow under glaciers and 4000 years ago in Switzerland which had trees growing under a glacier or it was warmer than today.

In North America, they covered all Canada, New England, New York, the Great Lakes, Chicago, all under glaciers.