Sentences with phrase «when glacial ice»

The rapid melting of Kangerdlugssuaq glacier has produced a special category of earthquake known as a glacialquake.1, 3 Once thought to occur when glacial ice strikes solid earth beneath it, glacialquakes are now attributed to lurching that occurs when parts of the glacier break off (calve) into the ocean.4, 5

Iron and sulfides could get into the water from rocks ground up when the glacial ice rubs against the bedrock of the continent.

Not exact matches

And Libby himself, when he analyzed wood samples from trees once buried beneath glacial ice, documented that North America's last Ice Age ended approximately 11,000 years ago — not 25,000 years ago as previously believice, documented that North America's last Ice Age ended approximately 11,000 years ago — not 25,000 years ago as previously believIce Age ended approximately 11,000 years ago — not 25,000 years ago as previously believed.

When that glacier recedes, it leaves a basin, enclosed by the moraine and remaining glacial ice, which fills with meltwater.

When floating ice shelves disintegrate, they reduce the resistance to glacial flow and thus allow the grounded glaciers they were buttressing to significantly dump more ice into the ocean, raising sea levels.

The last glacial maximum was about 18,000 years ago, when the Patagonian ice sheet expands to include about 10 meters [33 feet] of global sea level.

Another thing that ice core showed, as others have before, is that the great swing in temperature between glacial and interglacial periods was invariably accompanied by great swings in the amount of greenhouse gases in the atmosphere: When the greenhouse goes up, the ice sheets go down.

In contrast, in slightly wetter parts of Mongolia the largest glaciers did date from the ice age but reached their maximum lengths tens of thousands of years earlier in the glacial period rather than at its culmination, around 20,000 years ago, when glaciers around most of the planet peaked.

The researchers found that during glacial periods when the atmosphere was colder and sea ice was far more extensive, deep ocean waters came to the surface much further north of the Antarctic continent than they do today.

Glacial meltwater gains phosphorus when it travels in moulins, or «pipes» through the ice — through the guts of the glacier and down to the where the ice meets the bedrock.

The sediment cores used in this study cover a period when the planet went through many climate cycles driven by variations in Earth's orbit, from extreme glacial periods such as the Last Glacial Maximum about 20,000 years ago, when massive ice sheets covered the northern parts of Europe and North America, to relatively warm interglacial periods with climates more like tglacial periods such as the Last Glacial Maximum about 20,000 years ago, when massive ice sheets covered the northern parts of Europe and North America, to relatively warm interglacial periods with climates more like tGlacial Maximum about 20,000 years ago, when massive ice sheets covered the northern parts of Europe and North America, to relatively warm interglacial periods with climates more like today's.

The tools were found beneath glacial deposits laid down during a period 450,000 years ago when the region was blanketed in ice, so they must be older than this.

Scientists have suggested that similar formations in Sweden formed when the immense weight of glacial ice forced sand and other loose material into fissures in underlying rocks.

At the end of the last glacial maximum, when ice sheets reached their maximum extent 20,000 to 25,000 years ago, the ice covering Antarctica was even thicker than it is today.

«Conversely, there is more and better evidence across Iceland that when the ice sheet underwent major reduction at the end of the last glacial period, there was a large increase in both the frequency and volume of basalt erupted — with some estimates being 30 times higher than the present day.

Frosted Cherry Pop - Tarts are the perfect snack for a hike, particularly when eaten on the deserted shore of a glacial lake with bald eagles and sea planes flying overhead, and SUV - sized chunks of blue ice out there, melting slowly in the sun.

Which leads me to another question — the melting glacial / Greenland / Antarctic ice water is depleted in CO2 (check out the bubbles in your ice cubes)-- how much additional CO2 is being sequestered by this runoff into the oceans, and what happens to CO2 increase when we run out of glaciers?

It seems increasingly clear that D - O events must involve major sea ice changes (and there is not much sea ice left, by comparison with what was present during the glacial period (20000 + years ago, when these events happened), so D - O events are increasingly unlikely in the future).

We've had both situations in the past — «Amsterdam» under ice about 20,000 years ago at the last glacial maximum, and «Amsterdam» under water in the Pliocene, 3 million years ago, when CO2 and sea level were higher than today.

The fire - ball was covered by dusty - ice when crossing the horizon event, which resulted in the glacial era and oceans formation.

Water stored as glacial ice could serve as the Himalayan region's hydrologic «insurance,» adding to streams and rivers when it is most needed.

Glacial periods give way to interglacials on some occasions when the Northern Hemisphere's summer solar insolation (the amount of solar radiation received by Earth's surface) increases alongside corresponding decreases in ice volume and increases in temperature and atmospheric carbon dioxide (CO2).

The Last Glacial Maximum is a period when ice sheets during the last northern hemisphere ice age were at their highest extent.

When a large ice sheet grows in a location, such as happened at the Last Glacial Maximum (LGM) about 20,000 years ago, the weight of the ice deforms the solid Earth beneath it.

Arctic climatic extremes include 25 °C hyperthermal periods during the Paleocene - Eocene (56 — 46 million years ago, Ma), Quaternary glacial periods when thick ice shelves and sea ice cover rendered the Arctic Ocean nearly uninhabitable, seasonally sea - ice - free interglacials and abrupt climate reversals.

Abrupt and severe temperature shifts have occurred on occasion in the past, typically separated by hundreds of years or more, but shifts of this magnitude that are global in extent have almost always occurred during glacial eras, when the extent of snow and ice allowed for great changes in feedback in response to only modest signals.

They do tend to occur in the coldest parts of the glacial cycles, when ice sheets extend out on to continental shelves.

Let's put more distance between ourselves and the last glacial maximum, when great ice sheets stretched over the USA and Europe.

When doing this with sea level data, as with OHC, as with tropospheric sensible heat, as with glacial ice mass loss, we are seeing a background, longer - term change that is non-linear, and for several decades now, accelerating.

Global warming began 18,000 years ago as the earth started warming its way out of the Pleistocene Ice Age — a time when much of North America, Europe, and Asia lay buried beneath great sheets of glacial iIce Age — a time when much of North America, Europe, and Asia lay buried beneath great sheets of glacial iceice.

When Kaser's team looked at ice cores previously drilled at two sites high in the western Alps — the Colle Gnifetti glacier saddle 4,455 m up on Monte Rosa near the Swiss — Italian border, and the Fiescherhorn glacier at 3,900 m in the Bernese Alps — they found that in around 1860 layers of glacial ice started to contain large amounts of soot.

Such warming is well within the envelope of variation experienced during the past 10,000 years and insignificant in the context of glacial cycles during the past million years, when Earth has been predominantly very cold and covered by extensive ice sheets.

Kilimanjaro's majestic glacial cap of 11,000 - year - old ice has long captured imaginations the world over, so it was not surprising that environmentalists focused their attention on it when scientists reported in 2001 that glaciers around the world were retreating, partly as a result of global warming caused by emissions of heat - trapping «greenhouse» gases from smokestacks and tailpipes.

Even back in the 70s, when there was some fear of eventual cooling bc the earth had been slowly cooling overall (as CO2 has slowly been reducing and going into the ground, until we suddenly reversed milllions and millions and millions of years in the process in an instant) and we are in an ice age and inter glacial period, papers predicting AGW outnumbered those worried about or predicting longer term cooling many times over.

A challenge for climate sleuths has been to find a place holding a series of corals dating back into and beyond the last ice age, when sea levels were more than 300 feet lower than they are now because so much water was locked up in glacial ice.

Overall, when taking a look at these newly realized ice - sheet weaknesses, it's worth noting that the total heat forcing impacting the world's ocean, air, and glacial systems is now rising into a range that is much more in line with Middle Miocene values.

Glacials happen when the 100,000 year Milankovitch orbital cycle is such that summer irradiance in high northern latitudes is at its lowest point — allowing the persistence of ice fields.

Last glacial maximum was the period in the history of the planet when ice sheets covered significant part of the Northern hemisphere.

It was a surprise when evidence turned up, around the end of the 19th century, that the recent glacial epoch had been made up of several cycles of advance and retreat of ice sheets — not a uniform Ice Age but a series of ice agice sheets — not a uniform Ice Age but a series of ice agIce Age but a series of ice agice ages.

Glacial ice presses down on the bedrock below it: when the ice melts, the bedrock rises in response to the drop in pressure, and sophisticated satellite measurements can deliver enough information to help scientists put a figure on the loss of ice.

Seismologists at Columbia University and Harvard University have found a new indicator that the Earth is warming: «glacial earthquakes» caused when the rivers of ice lurch unexpectedly and produce temblors as strong as magnitude 5.1 on the moment - magnitude scale, which is similar to the Richter scale.

Next, I would offer the following hypothesis: glacial scarring should be most intense when (1) ice is built up high, and (2) flowing fast downhill.

This is the case in the Little Ice Age, when the lows of all three cycles took place in close succession, contributing to make this the coldest period in the Holocene, bringing it to the brink of triggering a glacial period.

As the worlds» oldest and most scrutinised instrumental temperature record it usefully covers much of the «Little Ice Age» when the most extensive recent glacial advances in the Holocene began, whilst numerous contemporary records make it possible to examine earlier periods in British climatic history.

The first major climatic - glacial threshold was crossed 38 m.y. ago near the Eocene - Oligocene boundary, when substantial Antarctic sea ice began to form.

This fossilized coral reef was alive about 20,000 years ago, during the height of the last glacial period, a time when Earth was around 9 degrees Fahrenheit (5 degrees Celsius) cooler than it is now, and the city of Chicago was buried beneath an ice sheet almost 2 miles (3 kilometers) thick.

Therefore we can work backward in time to estimate what he reckons atmospheric CO2 would be at the time of the last Ice Age (glacial maximum), a time when global temperatures were about 4 - 6 °C cooler than now.

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Imputities are a main problem in Greenland ice cores where a mix of seasalt / carbonate and acidic dust from Icelandic volcanoes can produce CO2 in situ, but is less of interest in deep inland Antarctic ice cores, except during the deepest times of glacials, when far more dust is deposited.

This overshoot is caused predominantly by the reduction of the meltwater in the northern North Atlantic associated with the retreat of the large amount of sea ice, an effect that becomes dominant when the subpolar North Atlantic is covered by sea ice as in the glacial condition.