Sentences with phrase «when glacial lakes»

Not only are the «frozen reservoirs» a fundamental water source, but the melting can also cause GLOFS — aka: «mountain tsunamis» — killer flash floods that occur when glacial lakes suddenly burst.

Alertnet: Abdul Jabbar was in his house in the Bindu Gol valley of Pakistan's northern Chitral district when a glacial lake burst through the ridge holding it back high above.

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There are ways to monitor when the dam of a glacial lake might break: Scientists track the lake's depth, the geological composition and geometry of its dam, and other factors, such as melting rate and steepness of adjacent glaciers.

DNA in lake sediment forms a natural archive displaying when various fish species colonized lakes after the glacial period.

In ancient times, when the second road was being formed, it was over Col R2 that the putative glacial lake would have overflowed.

During the Last Glacial Maximum when the Earth was much colder, closed - basin lakes in currently dry parts of western North America, the Middle East and South America were much larger than they are now, as evidenced by radiocarbon dating and other testing of their ancient shorelines.

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.

No one needs advanced math to understand what is going on when hundreds of supra - glacial lakes appear when before there were none.

You can also see that coming off the last glacial maximum, the lake warmed, as did the rest of the Earth, then when the temperature dropped during the Younger Dryas, so did the temperature of the lake.

Pabitra Mukhopadhyay: When it becomes clear that the increasing risk of GLOFs is the outcome of a global trend in climate change and when it is known that the Hindu Kush Himalayan Region has far too many retreating glaciers leaving far too many glacial lakes that may turn into GLOFs, two realities emerge: No single [continue readingWhen it becomes clear that the increasing risk of GLOFs is the outcome of a global trend in climate change and when it is known that the Hindu Kush Himalayan Region has far too many retreating glaciers leaving far too many glacial lakes that may turn into GLOFs, two realities emerge: No single [continue readingwhen it is known that the Hindu Kush Himalayan Region has far too many retreating glaciers leaving far too many glacial lakes that may turn into GLOFs, two realities emerge: No single [continue reading...]