Sentences with phrase «underlying sheet of ice»
This could mean you shoveled just enough snow off your walk to expose the underlying sheet of ice, and knowingly didn't take any action to remove the ice, resulting in a hazardous condition that you had a duty to mitigate or to prevent.
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«Hot rock and ice: Volcanic chain underlies Antarctica: Seismic maps of the mantle will improve predictions of giant ice sheet's fate.»
Seismic stations record data that allows us to understand the properties of the Earth's interior, like the strength of the crust and underlying mantle, giving us a more complete understanding of how the Earth is responding to changes in the ice sheets.
This allows for a more complete understanding of the interactions between the ice sheets and the underlying bedrock.
What the article does not tell you is that a major part of the warming affecting the West Antarctic ice sheet is due to underlying geothermal activity centered in that location.
2:10 p.m. Updated Lora Koenig of NASA just sent this note providing the reference underlying her comment about past summer melting episodes at the summit (the spot on the giant ice sheet least vulnerable to melting):
The weight of the ice sheet depresses the underlying land, and when the ice melts away the land slowly rebounds.
There, it can loosen the ice's grip at locations, called grounding lines, where ice frozen to underlying outcrops of rock has long anchored the ice sheet to the land, Minzoni said.
The flat topography seen from a plane over Greenland is in sharp contrast to the jagged features found to be underlying much of the ice sheet.
Over 98 % of the continent is submerged by three large ice sheets that drown the underlying topography.