Sentences with phrase «where glaciers flow»

The crack remained dormant for decades, stuck in a section of the ice shelf called a suture zone, an area where glaciers flowing into the ice shelf come together.

There is a potential difference between the two, in glacier such as most marine terminating outlet glaciers, where the glacier flow is rapid, acceleration results from retreat and thinning.

Not exact matches

Most Antarctic glaciers flow straight into the ocean in deep submarine troughs, the grounding line is the place where their base leaves the sea floor and begins to float.

On the glacier scale, thinning is strongest in the Amundsen Sea embayment (ASE), where it is confirmed as being localized on the fast - flowing glaciers and their tributaries (Fig. 3 [below].

The image below shows the regions and direction where nitrogen glaciers might still be flowing.

Because, and this is the crux of the new paper, scientists have discovered deep channels where warmer water can flow right under the glacier.

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After 2 hours we arrive to a nice highland valley, a place named Kenqo Mayu, or Zigzag River, where glacier water flows through the valley.

As they emphasize, this applies only in those locations where there are volcanoes, which is certainly not everywhere where fast glacier flow and thinning is occurring.

The map of ice flow speed revealed a complex pattern where fast glacier flow near the coast extended well inland in narrow tributary bands.

In the Nigardsbreelva watershed in Jostedalen, where 75 percent of the catchment area is covered by glacier, water flow approached flood levels throughout much of August.

Ice does not conduct heat well, and a rise of a few degrees in the air would take thousands of years to affect a glacier base a mile away, where it could lubricate the flow.

«As a glacier goes afloat, becoming an ice shelf, its flow is resisted partly by the margins, which are the bay walls or the seams where two glaciers merge,» Ginny Catania, assistant professor at UTIG said in a statement.

Finding out where the ducks were retrieved might help the experimenters figure out where water flowing beneath the glacier ends up.

Science Daily reports on a study recently published in Geophysical Research Letters where satellite measurements assessed glacier flow in the Antarctic Peninsula.

Nowhere is the melting more alarming than in the Himalayas and on the Tibetan plateau where the ice melt from glaciers sustains not only the dry - season flow of the Indus, Ganges, Yangtze, and Yellow rivers but also the irrigation systems that depend on them.