(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.
Striation
Definition:
(n.) The quality or condition of being striated.
(n.) A stria; as, the striations on a shell.
Example Sentences:
(1) We show that over a limited range of high spatial frequencies this noise takes on a striated appearance, with the striations running perpendicular to the true fringe orientation.
(2) Cytoplasmic striations seen by light microscopy and trilamellar inclusions seen by electron microscopy were found in ballooned adrenocortical cells.
(3) In addition the bare central backbone showed transverse striations.
(4) These vacuoles contained one or several typical collagen fibrils and had either an electron-lucent matrix or contained an electron-dense material obscuring the fibrillar outlines and cross-striations.
(5) A new optical-electronic method has been developed to detect striation spacing of single muscle fibers.
(6) Fungiform papillae which had a round depression on the top were distributed sporadically among the filiform papillae, and contained columnar CTC with several plane striations running longitudinally along the lateral surface.
(7) Often juxtaposing sets of striations are not in correct register with respect to one another.
(8) In the Colobinae striations are oriented in a predominantly mesiodistal direction.
(9) Superficial corneal epithelial striations described as fibrillary lines have been documented as a common finding in normal and keratoconic eyes.
(10) A characteristic 67 nm transverse striation produced by the intermixing of tropocollagen and collagen types 1 and 3 is observed.
(11) These masses were classified into three broad categories: centrally necrotic masses with a large predominantly liquefactive center and higher density periphery (29); multilocular, septated masses with distinct linear bands or striations (21); and miscellaneous masses (9).
(12) These transition cells possessed apical granules of variable size as well as prominent basal striations.
(13) Amino acid composition, cross striation banding as observed using electron microscopy, cyanogen bromide peptide patterns in disc electrophoresis gels and resistance of the disulfide regions to pepsin digestion indicated a close similarity to previously described insoluble type III collagen, which was solubilized by limited pepsin digestion.
(14) Rabbits were trained to discriminate between vertical and horizontal striations.
(15) These structures were labelled with a selective antibody and showed regular periodic striation with repeats of approximately 40 nm.
(16) Sometimes, these seemed to be connected with the wall of the intracristal space by fine, electron-dense cross-striations.
(17) In the angiograms, the highly vascular region displays a certain striation which is due to the presence of muscle fiber bundles running between the pathologic vessels.
(18) However, in the clinical setting of acute cholecystitis, the presence of striations suggests gangrenous changes in the gallbladder.
(19) A- and I-band striation positions have been obtained, three-dimensionally reconstructed, and statistically analyzed from the volumes of resting isolated heart cells.
(20) Striation of the cuticle cells was normal, with wearing of their free borders (PL, SEM; fig.