(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.
Moraine
Definition:
(n.) An accumulation of earth and stones carried forward and deposited by a glacier.
Example Sentences:
(1) I will not find out the charge until I go to trial, so I just do not know.” Fowle, a 56-year-old equipment operator for the city of Moraine, Ohio, said he was originally detained at a large tourist hotel in Pyongyang and later moved to what he described as a suite-style room in a guest house, which he did not name.
(2) Mr Hintze wrote on the website: "My support for the Conservative party is something I am immensely proud of and I am pleased to be able to help, both with the declared donations I have made and through the loan from the UK-based trading company, Morain UK, of which I am an ultimate beneficiary and which responded to the party's need for support by agreeing to a secured loan on commercial terms last year."
(3) Yet for decades we thought it was just a hill made of glacial moraine," says discoverer Nick Card of the Orkney Research Centre for Archaeology .
(4) Mr Hintze, who is a generous donor to the arts, notably the Victoria and Albert museum, used his offshore Channel Islands company Morain Investments to provide the loan.
(5) • £710pp in traditional Chalet La Moraine (sleeps 12) on 18 December (or £950pp starting 26 December), travel extra.
(6) One of the best places to stay is Moraine Park Campground, 2½ miles south of the Beaver Meadows entrance.
(7) This paper concerns the microbiological part of an investigation, the goal of which is to describe the biological changes in coniferous forest soil upon clear-cutting in a northern (66 degrees 20'N) moraine area where reforestation after clear-cutting had been met with difficulty.
(8) • Cabins from $142 a night, bunks from $49, grandcanyonlodges.com , book well in advance Rocky Mountain , Colorado Facebook Twitter Pinterest Moraine Park Campground.
(9) Everest base camp is particularly vulnerable because it is on a shoulder of rocky glacial moraine below the Khumbu Icefall – a maze of crevasses and tottering glacial ice cliffs – through which climbers must navigate an often dangerous path.
(10) "There were lots of Sherpas standing on the moraine watching us, but we knew they wouldn't follow.
(11) It sits on the remains of a glacial moraine: a pile of rocks and debris left behind by a retreating glacier at the end of the last ice age.
(12) If the moraines which dam the lake are breached, thousands of lives in the most densely populated Sherpa valley in Nepal are at risk from flooding and landslides.
(13) In the second part of the work, results are furnished on the BaP content in the ice of modern glaciers and their moraines, located in Kamchatka.
(14) At the Moraine Park Campground (+1 518-885-3639, reservations recommended, pitches from $14 a night) you can overnight within sight of the herds.
(15) Park entrance from $10 a vehicle (valid for seven days) Estes Park: Wildlife watching Photograph: Alamy No need to bring binoculars to Moraine Park, a high-alpine valley where elk let hikers approach within 100ft.
(16) People in tents were wrapped up in them, lifted by the force of the blast and then slammed down onto rocks, glacial moraine and ice on the glacier.” Kedrowski estimated that 40-50% of base camp, which is at 5,545m, had been destroyed.