(n.) An immense field or stream of ice, formed in the region of perpetual snow, and moving slowly down a mountain slope or valley, as in the Alps, or over an extended area, as in Greenland.
Example Sentences:
(1) The melting of sea ice, ice caps and glaciers across the planet is one of the clearest signs of global warming and the UK-led team of scientists will use the data from CryoSat-2 to track how this is affecting ocean currents, sea levels and the overall global climate.
(2) Raw power Standing before a glacier in Greenland as it calves icebergs into the dark waters of a cavernous fjord is to witness the raw power of a natural process we have accelerated but will now struggle to control.
(3) It’s walkable to the trailhead for the Hielo Azul glacier, and a network of mountain refuges, all with camping ( trekelbolson.com ).
(4) Facebook Twitter Pinterest Satellite view of Antarctica with the Thwaites glacier marked in red.
(5) Higher air temperatures can increase surface melting, but warm ocean currents accelerate ice loss more when glaciers flow into the sea.
(6) In December the US Geological Survey also warned that sea-level rise could be even worse than feared, as much as 1.5 metres by the end of this century, partly due to increased melting of the volume of water stored in glaciers in Antarctica and Greenland.
(7) These glaciers are receding world-wide, in the Himalayas, Andes and Rocky Mountains.
(8) Glaciers in the Alps have lost about two-thirds of their volume since 1850.
(9) "Going to look at glaciers melting in Norway registers in a way that planting a tree in Wales would not.
(10) The striking images of Cameron posing on the ice with huskies on the way to visiting a melting glacier in 2006 marked a turning point for the Conservatives, who had been seen by many voters as uncaring.
(11) But because meltwater can percolate down to lubricate the undersides of glaciers, and because warmer oceans can lift the ends of glaciers up off the sea floor and remove a natural brake, the ice itself can end up getting dumped into the sea, unmelted.
(12) This would make those glaciers more vulnerable to melting than had been previously anticipated.
(13) Instead he said the buildup of ice was caused by the aftermath of a collision between a huge iceberg known as B09B and the Mertz Glacier Tongue.
(14) "I believe this data is the most reliable estimate of global glacier mass balance that has been produced to date," said Bamber.
(15) Using aerial surveys and satellite imagery, they monitored the lakes and tracked the progress of glaciers moving toward the coast.
(16) Mitchell Feierstein, chief executive of Glacier Environmental Funds, said the CDM had long been overshadowed by bigger opportunities for green investors.
(17) A global glacier database called the Randolph Glacier Inventory made the study possible.
(18) Facebook Twitter Pinterest The gust of warm air that caused the unprecedented thaw in Greenland's surface ice also appears to have caused unusually high run-off from a glacier, wiping out a crossing near a key research and transport hub.
(19) The package includes a night at the Hilton Nordica Hotel in Reykjavik, the base for the cast and crew during filming, and features trips to the Hofdabrekkuheidi area and the Vatnajökull glacier in Skaftafell, both of which featured in character Jon Snow's epic trek beyond the wall.
(20) Locals have nicknamed it "blue diamond"; its colour comes from being cleaved from centuries-old compressed ice at the ancient heart of the glacier.
Iceberg
Definition:
(n.) A large mass of ice, generally floating in the ocean.
Example Sentences:
(1) Lord said the case is "likely to be the tip of the iceberg", leading to other claims against banks over the Libor scandal.
(2) Raw power Standing before a glacier in Greenland as it calves icebergs into the dark waters of a cavernous fjord is to witness the raw power of a natural process we have accelerated but will now struggle to control.
(3) The examples I have quoted are the tip of a very large and very nasty iceberg.
(4) It turns out the accounting scandal – which revealed the estimate of first-half profits Tesco gave the City back in August had been artificially inflated by £263m – was just the tip of the iceberg that the previous management team left for him to negotiate.
(5) The number of people in England and Wales entering insolvency fell in the first three months of 2012, but debt charities warned the figures represented "the tip of the iceberg" of the UK's debt problems.
(6) He said the figures could be “just the tip of the iceberg”, as some tenants could be losing their homes without going through the court process.
(7) It is in order to fight in a "lo-tech war" on a world that is never named, "flying the frosty vortices of air above the vast white islands that were the colliding tabular icebergs".
(8) The police and the authorities are now aware that trafficked children are being forced to work in cannabis farms but this is really only the tip of the iceberg.
(9) Russian athletics’ doping crisis could be the tip of the iceberg for world sport Read more It is understood that senior figures within the IAAF council will push for Russia to be immediately provisionally suspended.
(10) Many of the tumours had the characteristics of an iceberg, with considerable extravesical extension making endoscopic management less suitable because of the possibility of massive haemorrhage or recurrence.
(11) The oppression of Europe's Romany has lasted thousands of years and the case of Maria is merely the tip of the iceberg.
(12) Instead he said the buildup of ice was caused by the aftermath of a collision between a huge iceberg known as B09B and the Mertz Glacier Tongue.
(13) Websites such as favors.org or sliversoftime.com, and new kinds of local currency – from Berkshares or brixtonpound.org – are the tip of a giant iceberg of an exchange-based economy that encompasses all the things that people do for each other without money changing hands in conventional ways.
(14) A skating star in the twilight of his storied career and another who could go on to be just as impressive combined to put in top performances at the Iceberg Skating Palace on Sunday night and win Russia their first gold medal, to the delight of the watching Vladimir Putin.
(15) Now we know, thanks to the findings handed by a whistleblower to the Sunday Times and ARD, the German broadcasting network, that Yegorova was just the tip of a very large iceberg .
(16) Dr Margaret Chan, director general of the World Health Organisation, sees obesity as the tip of the iceberg, pointing towards a catastrophe in which the world has to manage millions suffering from long-term chronic illness.
(17) We discuss the concept that circulating cytokines represent the tip of the iceberg.
(18) Paul Kenny, the GMB general secretary, said: "Current job losses already announced in the public sector of nearly 150,000 are just the top of the iceberg heading for our services and our economy when the comprehensive spending review finally hits home next month.
(19) He also shows off a spectacular electric blue iceberg.
(20) The banning of minarets may prove to be the tip of an upcoming iceberg.