Sentences with phrase «underground sheet of ice»

An underground sheet of ice in the mountains of Transylvania has given scientists a glimpse of climate changes in prehistoric Europe that helped humans settle that part of the continent.

Not exact matches

Researchers previously used MRO's Shallow Radar (SHARAD) to map extensive underground water - ice sheets in middle latitudes of Mars and estimate that the top of the ice is less than about 10 yards beneath the ground surface.

These eight scarps, with slopes as steep as 55 degrees, reveal new information about the internal layered structure of previously detected underground ice sheets in Mars» middle latitudes.

A new study by scientists at NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory (JPL) in Pasadena, California, and the University of California, Irvine, shows that while ice sheets and glaciers continue to melt, changes in weather and climate over the past decade have caused Earth's continents to soak up and store an extra 3.2 trillion tons of water in soils, lakes and underground aquifers, temporarily slowing the rate of sea level rise by about 20 percent.

3D scans from NASA's Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter captured images of thick sheets of underground ice below the Red Planet's surface.

At this pit on Mars, the steep slope at the northern edge (toward the top of the image) exposes a cross-section of a thick sheet of underground water ice.

I think that we need to find a way to keep most of the fossil fuels safely underground if we are going to avoid «dangerous» consequences [see perhaps http://www.stabilisation2005.com] such as melting of the Greenland ice sheet.

When one couples the plausibility of underground heat causing instability in one region with the old newspaper articles about fears of ice sheet collapse from 100 years ago, at a minimum a reasonable person should wonder what has really been going on for many centuries.

Can you refer me to a website that can properly define the merits and flaws of Al's hockey stick graph, discuss the underground thermal activity present in many areas of the world where glacial regression is occurring, explain the advancement of the Antarctic ice sheets as others recede in line with the findings of NASA?