Sentences with phrase «when cracks in the ice»

They discovered potentially revelatory harmonic properties of ice quakes, which are minor rumbles produced when cracks in the ice are reshaped by water flowing through them.

Or the news from Antarctica this past May, when a crack in an ice shelf grew 11 miles in six days, then kept going; the break now has just three miles to go — by the time you read this, it may already have met the open water, where it will drop into the sea one of the biggest icebergs ever, a process known poetically as «calving.»

Not exact matches

My Dad use to make ice cream for us when the weather got hot, in an old fashioned crack ice cream freezer.

The ice - free - corridor theory began to crack in the 1990s, when researchers made a case that humans lived at Monte Verde in Chile more than 14,000 years ago.

Even when a prime, rock - free site is found, samples can be contaminated with microbial activity or by modern air that seeps in when temperature changes cause the ice to crack.

But when black ice is thinner than 1.25 inches, cracks in the central part of the arch can no longer be supported vertically or horizontally.

That's when the cracks are so big that there is plenty of give in the ice and you should not be on the lake.

As this water moves through rocks, it dissolves salt compounds and pushes through fractures in the overlying ice to form reservoirs closer the moon's surface, where it is expelled into space when the outermost layer of the crust cracks open and the resulting depressurization of these reservoirs causes water vapor and ice particles to shoot out in the observed plumes.

The situation is far more dire up in Shishmaref, where not only is ground disappearing but so are people, such as the son of an Eskimo who perished when he fell through a crack in the rapidly melting Arctic ice.

In the latter category, there are Pam (Jason Mantzoukas), a gun - toting shopkeeper who sells drugs to kids out of an ice cream truck, and Jason's cousin Nick (Adam Pally), a younger version of Dick who shows up on crutches during the movie's climax for no apparent reason (It might seem like a useless point to raise, but the screenplay somehow lacks logical consistency, such as when Jason scolds Dick for smoking the «gateway drug» of marijuana after the grandson smoked crack earlier).

- a lot of focus was put on sound effects in order to immerse players in the world of Hyrule - the development team worked with Sound Racer, a studio specialized in sound effects - this studio also worked on Xenoblade Chronicles X - they recorded more than 10 000 different sounds for the game - the team used a school bag to simulate the sound of rubbing leather - for the sound of «normal» footsteps, they mixed various kinds of sands - for the sounds of equipment, they had to search for various materials and find ways to use them - they used an actual block of ice to recreate the sound of footsteps on ice - with the ice block, it always ended up melting, or getting cracks when the staff had to walk on it - Link's footsteps were made by a woman - depending on Link's actions and the equipment he's using / wearing, the recorded sounds were separated out individually - the volume is changed as needed to make a particular sound stand out - check out sound effect samples here

Some would melt some would stay frozen and in between it would be easier to crack the ice then when it was totally frozen.

Newspapers had the resources to send reporters to the far ends of the Earth, as The Times did in 2003 when I got to camp on drifting, cracking North Pole sea ice with a research team.

The shear margins which bind the ice shelves laterally are now heavily rifted they say, resembling cracks in a mirror when observed in satellite images.

In both 2010 and 2012 Manhattan - sized ice islands formed when a lateral crack grew and reached the central channel.

When we first arrived at base camp at the beginning of April, the crack in the ice block on the West Ridge was pretty small — now it is probably between 5 and 7 metres wide.

After looking at the various cycles and where they might be come Spring and summer and current state of play in the Artic after looking at real time modis etc I have to agree with the likes of geo that the thin, cracked ice will not protect it enough when WAA comes into place June onwards and a breach of 2007 looks very likely.

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Hi Sam, here are a few examples of water damage we've had: — refrigerator in an upstairs condo was installed incorrectly and the ice maker gradually leaked over a 3 - day weekend, saturating the floor, insulation, and into the unit below — bottom floor of a duplex was flooded when the sump pumps tripped the breaker in the middle of the night — pipes burst in a vacant unit shortly after we purchased it at foreclosure, saturating the carpet, pad, and drywall — upstairs unit shower had small crack in shower pan which caused the ceiling to gradually saturate with water and tenant was slow to report the issue