How To Use Glacier In A Sentence
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Neither do I think moraines of this kind would be formed by a glacier emerging from a steep narrow canyon and running out on a level plain; for in such cases, as soon as the confinement of the bounding walls is removed, the ice stream spreads out into an _ice lake_.
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Studying this region will help researchers understand how much and in what ways Arctic glaciers and ice caps are contributing to sea level rise.
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It warns of adverse consequences such as the melting of glaciers and polar icecaps, leading to rising sea levels.
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This is the northernmost and wettest of the central Asian depressions, remnants of a Tertiary era inland sea, with relict glaciers, glacier lakes and a wide variety of rock types, the result of a long series of successive eras of deposition and orogeny.
Uvs Nuur Basin, Russian Federation, Republic of Tuva and Mongolia
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Beyond affecting the humans and wildlife that call the area home, the Arctic's warmer temperatures and decreases in permafrost, snow cover, glaciers and sea ice also have wide-ranging consequences for the physical and biological systems in other parts of the world.
Arctic is warming, NOAA report says
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After breakfast, basking herself in the sun, Frona descried a familiar bunch of men rounding the tail of the glacier in the direction of
CHAPTER 4
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The hikers start in tropical rainforest territory and travel through moorlands, alpine meadows and glaciers on the summit.
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Its Awesome Foursome weekend, based in the Austrian resort of Zell am See, in the Kitzbühler Alps, features white-water rafting, canyoning, mountain-biking and glacier-skiing.
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No coseismic offset in the position of the glacier surface is observed; instead, modest tsunamis associated with the glacial earthquakes implicate glacier calving in the seismogenic process.
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Satellite and ice measurements show the Greenland and Antarctic ice sheets are losing mass at an increasing rate, and mountain glacier melting is accelerating;
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I should be safely back at the Glacier while he deals with Hedge and whatever else is out there!
LIRAEL: DAUGHTER OF THE CLAYR
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Here, a drumlin, an oval mound smooth-sculpted by glaciers, rises to give an uninterrupted panorama of sea, fields and forests from its grassy crown.
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We've had glaciations and we've had warmer periods, and vegetation would creep back as the glaciers were retreating.
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In mid December, the dog teams turned back, leaving the rest to face the ascent of the Beardmore Glacier and the polar plateau.
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They also took over similar services at all of the mountain hotels, the last, Glacier House in 1915 by which time they had 80 tally-hos, coaches, carriages and wagons and 146 head of driving horses.
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It is still below freezing in the mountains despite the higher temperatures, hence more snowfall and bigger glaciers.
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In this untracked and threatened wilderness, our small group will backpack between glacier-fed rivers, taking time for close observation and photography.
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Using stable sea kayaks, we'll explore a remote corner of this region, search for wildlife in sheltered coves, and watch glaciers calve into ice-choked bays.
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Their familiar homeland of Norway has heavy clay soils ground up by glaciers.
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This time it's like crossing a widening crevasse in a glacier.
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It is a country dominated by high peaks and wide flat stretches of lava field, powerful waterfalls and creaking glaciers.
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During the brief summer, it is warm enough for a few days or weeks to create meltwater; a few, inconsequential streams tumble down from the glaciers above the valleys.
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Such a rise in temperatures could melt ice sheets and glaciers.
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As glaciers shrink and meltwater lakes grow, the threat to nearby communities increases.
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Above Muir, you'll wend past yawning crevasses along the Cowlitz Glacier, tiptoe over snow bridges on the Ingraham Glacier, and duck past the giant seracs of the Ingraham Icefall.
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Arrived at the foot of the mountain (the Jungfrau, that is, the Maiden); glaciers; torrents; one of these torrents _nine hundred feet_ in height of visible descent.
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It ain't gonna refreeze the glaciers, but every little helps.
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Seeing glaciers, icebergs and historic settlements was the point, not dressing up for dinner and partying.
Times, Sunday Times
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New analyses of old seismic data have unveiled a previously unrecognized type of earthquake - quakes created by brief surges of massive glaciers.
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Volcanoes erupt under glaciers, causing gigantic floods that make the island a fearsomely dangerous place for human colonization.
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Silicaceous rock powders are believed by many farmers to mimic the remineralization that occurs when glaciers descend from the north, grinding rocks into a fine powder that supplies trace minerals.
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I stayed off the glacier, stumbling down the left moraine, often catching myself with my arms just before slamming into glacial erratics.
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Glaciers, permafrost and polar ice caps are melting, and droughts, floods and more extreme storms are occurring more frequently in many parts of the world.
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Wireless radios will be positioned on moving glaciers, and gear must be insulated against temperatures far colder than they were designed to withstand.
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The only honest information would have been that about 97 percent of the world’s relevant scientists overwhelming agree that climate change couldn’t be more real and is a genuine danger to humanity and the planet -- and that the evidence is all around us in freakish weather, rising oceans, melting arctic ice and glaciers, shifting habitats, and more.
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From here, the highway winds through a dreamscape of cloud-collared summits and blue glaciers.
Times, Sunday Times
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Have you ever admired those pictures of trampers walking through beautiful forest, or standing on a mountain top gazing over valleys or glaciers, and wished it were you?
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Till it gets them, troop disengagement, withdrawal and the final demilitarization of the glacier is not on the cards.
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The press conference on improving outreach and education in the cryosphere is great for lots of facts and figures about the frightening rate at which glaciers and sea ice are melting, and the wide ranging implications (it’s a little slow to get going, but worth it once the panelists start).
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During the course of the voyage he made close to eighty oil sketches and numerous pencil drawings of ice in the form of icebergs, glaciers, packs, and floes under various conditions of light and atmosphere.
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At another - possibly on the same night - it might be minuscule portions of conch ceviche on a bed of lime and chilli, drenched in aged balsamic and served in a trumpet fashioned from the re-frozen meltwaters of Arctic glaciers.
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They reached South Georgia after 17 days in mountainous seas, but still faced a 22-mile trek across unexplored mountains, glaciers and snowfields to get help.
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The volume of meltwater dashing down from the glaciers had transformed normally benign streams into charging torrents that demanded respect.
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Hubbard Glacier is the largest tidewater glacier in North America.
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It is also likely that mass movement is much more common during periods when glaciers are retreating; large moraines and steep valley sides are then unstable because they are no longer supported by the glacier.
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North Ossetian president Alexander Dzasokhov said the glacier was 150m high.
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(28,265 feet), Gasherbrum, and Masherbrum, which tower over and feed the vast Boltoro glacier.
The Panjab, North-West Frontier Province, and Kashmir
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She liked dogs, though there were none in the higher reaches of the Glacier.
LIRAEL: DAUGHTER OF THE CLAYR
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Effective techniques of fighting the enemy in the mountains are induced rockfalls, avalanches, glacier movements and mudslides.
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Older Palaeozoic rocks are represented by greenish grey slates from the sides of the Beardmore glacier and by radiolarian cherts; but the most widespread of the sedimentary rocks occurring in vast beds in the mountain faces is that named by Ferrar the Beacon sandstones, which in the far south Shackleton found to be banded with seams of shale and coal amongst which a fossil occurred which has been identified as coniferous wood and suggests that the place of the formation is Lower Carboniferous or perhaps Upper Devonian.
Perspective of Antarctica in 1911
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Scientists have reconstructed the genome of an ancient human called Inuk from hair preserved in permafrost for 4,000 years ms Rotterdam's 2010 Alaskan Explorer Cruises Highlight Hubbard Glacier
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Mark Skidmore, a microbiologist at Montana State University in Bozeman, reported at the conference that his team has found methanogens in the Robertson glacier in the Canadian Rockies.
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The forensic anthropologist from the POW/MIA Accounting group who helped chisel the veteran out of the glacier was expected to arrive at the morgue late Thursday afternoon, when he and the coroner's staff would decide the extent of examination that should take place there.
Remains Returned List WWII
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It has virgin temperate woods, craggy desolate coastlines, fjords, glaciers and soft, rolling hills.
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Its world wonders range from Andean peaks to Amazonian wilderness; from the endless horizons of the pampas to the awesome glaciers of Patagonia.
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The way melt is controlled is by the removal of snow cover to expose glacier ice.
Times, Sunday Times
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Because the glacier moves a few inches a day, Gyalzen will build a temporary shelter with stone walls and use a tent for cover.
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A glacier forms whenever the accumulation of snow/ice exceeds ablation over a sustained period of time.
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You'll kayak through a maze of fjords and tidal channels and through the ice-encrusted Cordillera Darwin and the most active tidewater glaciers in the world.
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These glaciers advanced during the four ice ages (glacial periods) and retreated during the three interglacials.
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And because many glaciers store large amounts of meltwater and release it suddenly, lives downstream will be lost.
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It provides an estimate of how much precipitation or temperature change must be invoked to explain the current net ablation of the glacier.
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A backdrop of mountains and glaciers, and condors soaring high overhead, make this the perfect antidote to the bustle of every day life.
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The snout of the glacier is a frozen cliff, risky to approach by boat and too dangerous to walk across.
Times, Sunday Times
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Cold dry periods, glacier expansion and crop failures between 5,800 and 4,900 years ago resulted in deforestation, flooding, silting of irrigation channels, salinisation and the collapse of the Sumerian city states.
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In a clearing between clouds we could see just ahead an area of large seracs where the shifting glacier had cleaved into blocks.
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It has the most imposing peaks, the most dramatic glaciers, the most spine-tingling views.
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Forget the advancing melt rate of Antarctic icebergs and world wide glacier retreat.
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They were among fifteen tourists hurt when the horses pulling their carriages bolted unexpectedly during a tour of the Briksdal glacier in Stryn, western Norway, on Monday.
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In the background are seen the two glacier currents emerging from different valleys; on the right from the Shreckhorn, and on the left from the Finsteraarhorn.
Ice and Glaciers
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The depth of Lake Washington makes suspension type bridges (cable stay included) impractical from a cost standpoint (you can tank the glaciers for that).
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Lisanne Aerts A moulin forms when water finds a crack in a glacier.
Taking on a Glacier
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If people are making policy recommendations based on finds of peat at glacier margins, it seems a matter of common sense that one would want a report on the stratigraphy by a geologist or glacial geomorphologist.
Some Geologists at Quelccaya « Climate Audit
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It's a felsenmeer (meaning "sea of rocks"), a relic of the glaciers, and is one of the unique features of the Blue Hills.
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A medial moraine is a strip of morainal debris in the middle of glacier ice which marks where two glaciers come together.
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How many people will still travel to the mountain if the glaciers are gone?
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The "corks" have been loosened, allowing the glaciers to flow more quickly, Thomas said.
Glaciers Quicken Pace to Sea
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The Ross Ice Shelf is the main outlet for several major glaciers from the West Antarctic Ice Sheet.
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While these lakes existed, they were maintained by the inflow of dirty meltwater from the receding glacier.
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Glaciers have deposited shale, slate, schist, and limestone throughout the region.
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They will be introduced to processes such as how glaciers shape landscapes.
Times, Sunday Times
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Heading southeast leads to Myrdalsjokull glacier, where you can ski or snowmobile year-round.
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The first part of the trip explores the coast, a region of emerald rain forests, deep fjords, rich sealife, and tidewater glaciers that crumble into icy seas.
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This is the time to go walking or horse-riding in the fresh mountain air or skiing on the Hintertux glacier.
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By the time a rescue helicopter lifted Don from the glacier, another storm threatened.
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The deep crevasses and moving ice in the Kumbu glacier make it the most dangerous part of Mount Everest and it has already claimed the lives of nine climbers.
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Evidence for these glaciers in the park is in the form of roches moutonées, rock erratics, striae and groove markings.
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The Associated Press said the drifting ice island from the Petermann glacier could threaten oil platforms and shipping.
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We have obtained and analyzed cores of varved sediments from Cheakamus, Green, and Glacier lakes.
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In the United States and Australia, skiing away from designated areas is prohibited, but in France it's normal to ski off-piste and on glaciers.
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In fine weather it is wise to visit the glaciers early in the day as the skies tend to cloud over in the afternoon.
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It takes a long time to build and melt an ice sheet, but glaciers can react quickly to temperature changes.
Times, Sunday Times
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It is true that in some areas glaciers are retreating, but the venues for the Winter Olympics rely more on snow fields than glaciers.
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We have obtained and analyzed cores of varved sediments from Cheakamus, Green, and Glacier lakes.
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In general, the north sides are concave in both their horizontal and vertical sections, having been sculptured into this shape by the residual glaciers that lingered in the protecting northern shadows, while the sun-beaten south sides, having never been subjected to this kind of glaciation, are convex or irregular.
The Yosemite
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They had to cross the mountains, glaciers and snowfields to reach the whaling station on the other side.
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A highlight of most Alaska cruises is a day spent among the glaciers.
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Snow and ice was coming down as the glacier shook.
Times, Sunday Times
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A rockslide from ages past, in conjunction with the undercutting and shovelling actions of a glacier, blocked the normal outflow of Medicine Lake.
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Glaciers can move and calving can occur, causing huge icebergs to break away and wreak havoc.
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According to early reports, the rotor blade of the helicopter hit the rugged vertical surface of a crevasse over a remote glacier in the northern part of the province.
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It progresses like a glacier moving across a continent.
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Though made of bronze, "Many Glacier" was constructed originally out of twisted, weathered, "stray, downed pieces of wood," which the artist collects on her Montana ranch and in Hawaii; and the ghostly, whitewashed sculpture—a controlled state of collapse—suggests stone, petrified wood and a scrapheap of bones.
Soaring Heights, A Sense of Horses
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The mercury is rising, the glaciers are melting and the hurricanes are hurtling towards the Americas with increasing ferocity.
Times, Sunday Times
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When I finally stepped off the glacier onto the rock ridge - safe - my legs gave out from under me and I crumpled into the talus.
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One of the most impressive manifestations of salt diapirism is where diapirs emerge at the present surface as a glacier of pure salt, moving at rates of between ten and one hundred metres per thousand years.
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Glaciers are powerful modificatory agents, and they can duplicate human flaking to a startling degree.
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The Coast Mountains rise steeply from the fjords and channels on the coast, and glaciers are found at higher elevations.
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First, we determined the acoustic emission stress of the gravel beneath the existing glacier, then compared it with the actual stress by calculation, which showed that they were nearly equal.
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In contrast, Antarctic bergs tend to calve from the more static ice shelves and glaciers that border the continent and protrude into the sea, making them not only larger, but also flatter, resembling the great tablelands of South Africa.
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Across the valley, towering above you, is the snow-covered dome of Mont Blanc, glaciers tumbling down its northern face –and the razor-sharp ‘needles’ of several aiguilles, set in a jagged line across the southern horizon.
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The authors used the continuous deposition of sediments in a proglacial lake to yield evidence of the discontinuous movements of the glacier.
Laguna Paco Cocha, Peru « Climate Audit
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Left by a passing glacier, the boulders acted as umbrellas to the softer rock beneath, protecting it from pluvial erosion.
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A moraine is the ground up debris consisting of everything from giant boulders to fine rock powder which a glacier leaves behind.
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Snow and ice was coming down as the glacier shook.
Times, Sunday Times
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But will they see glaciers melting and oceans rising?
Times, Sunday Times
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Insects now enrich the air, frogs pipe cheerily in the shallows, soon followed by the ouzel, which is the first bird to visit a glacier lake, as the sedge is the first of plants.
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glaciers move tardily
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As the glacier reaches the lake, icebergs break off and slowly drift out to the sea.
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But from every side of the peninsula, its crown jewel, the mountainous 900,000 acre Olympic National Park is visible, veined with snow and glacier ice, even in July.
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Picture an ancient volcano crater partly filled by a glacier.
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Some of the most dominating physical features I've ever encountered, a glacier is a vast mass of ice formed from the accumulation of snow that compacts faster than it melts and sublimates.
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Above Muir, you'll wend your way past yawning crevasses along the Cowlitz Glacier, tiptoe over snow bridges on the Ingraham Glacier, and duck past the giant seracs of the Ingraham Icefall.
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The group took a thrilling helicopter ride over the glacier, which descends some 2,280 feet, terminating in a spectacular icefall that feeds the river.
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Himalayan glaciers are not retreating as rapidly as predicted and in some cases are expanding, claims Indian glaciologist Vijay Kumar Raina, who has caused controversy among scientists.
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A glacier species of particular note is the glacier flea Isotoma saltans, a species of springtail.
Jungfrau-Aletsch-Bietschhorn, Switzerland
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Greenland's topology has been shaped by the glaciers of the ice age
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Nevertheless the climatic regime of the palaeosols was fundamentally frigid and these palaeosols formed on glacial terraces beside large permanent glaciers.
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Ice in the arctic has never disappeared in the summer, as it is projected to within a decade. the ice is nearly back where it was. 90% of glaciers on earth are growing including the greenland and antartic ice sheet
Matthew Yglesias » Wednesday Arctic Ice Blogging
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During the summer months, the light lasts well into the evening while passengers sit on deck, wrapped in rugs, marvelling at the beauty of the glaciers.
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Our finds were not the first ‘warm artifacts’ to be harvested from the forelands of retreating Swiss glaciers.
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It is the land of lakes, glaciers and waterfalls shedding their endless charm forever.
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His plot moves at the pace of a glacier descending a mountain.
Times, Sunday Times
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The front wall of the Muir Glacier is about two and a half or three miles wide.
Travels in Alaska
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Snow will often accumulate and can eventually compact to form glaciers and ice caps.
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Similarly the very explosive eruptions in the Glacier Peak range were associated with rapid ice sheet thinning.
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We plan to try to get to either Yellowstone National Park which is only an hour and a half away from her place in Wyoming or Glacier National Park which is 5 or 6 hours west, in Montana.
New adventures ahead!
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Instead of being thick rivers of ice full of crevasses, the glaciers within the Dry Valleys are flat and rather smooth; some are even shaped like pancakes.
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It's at the glaciers that you really get that fingertip feel for their presence because you are being channelled into the exact path they followed.
Times, Sunday Times
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The satellite images used in the study also showed the lower parts of the glaciers fracturing and disintegrating in response to the loss of the ice shelf.
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The accumulation was wholly glacial; and probably a lake had supervened on the melting of the great glacier and its recedence, which lake, confined by a frozen moraine, would periodically lose its waters by sudden accessions of heat melting the ice of the latter.
Himalayan Journals — Complete
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According to Morton, Mars has clouds, winds, shorelines, river valleys, volcanoes and even glaciers.
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In short, they were seven of the most important Clayr in all the Glacier.
LIRAEL: DAUGHTER OF THE CLAYR
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The Monteratsch Glacier spread down from it like a silky, white, bridal veil.
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Only the very greatest of their heroes are interred within the glacier.
THE GOLDEN FOOL: BOOK TWO OF THE TAWNY MAN
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Through aspen hills heading toward the lake, we face headwinds blowing down from Dawson Pass, known as the windiest place in Glacier.
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The first part of the trip explores the coast, a region of emerald rain forests, deep fjords, rich sealife, and tidewater glaciers that crumble into icy seas.
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The late renaissance had little experience of pack-ice and polar seas, but they did have plenty of glaciers in the alps.
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As a teenager I avidly devoured stories of hairy bipeds glimpsed through snowstorms, strange cries echoing across glaciers, or enigmatic footprints in the snow.
Getting to Know a Real 'Abominable Snowman'
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Ski instruction, heliskiing and a picnic on a glacier put the price up even further.
Times, Sunday Times
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The scorching heat of the Oxus plain was a complete contrast, except for the chilly nights, after the terrible glaciers of Kara Dagh.
KARA KUSH
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The woolly mammoth was a smaller furrier beast, that lived in the north closer to the glaciers of the Ice Ages, from Alaska through Canada, and east to the Great Lakes and New England.
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But it is not wise to visit these glaciers without someone who knows them, for one might easily fall into one of the great fissures in the ice, known as crevasses, especially if lately-fallen snow had hidden the opening of the mighty crack.
Peeps at Many Lands: Norway
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The colossal Muir Glacier, the remains of a world the history of which is lost in the dim twilight none can now penetrate, is dying slowly through a million years.
Five Nights
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A rockslide from ages past, in conjunction with the undercutting and shovelling actions of a glacier, blocked the normal outflow of Medicine Lake.
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The glacier that once covered the entire island right down to the tideline seems to have retreated.
THE GOLDEN FOOL: BOOK TWO OF THE TAWNY MAN
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Eventually the berg struck the glacier with only a glancing blow, nevertheless breaking off enough of the ice tongue that maps of the region needed redrawing.
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It is a country dominated by high peaks and wide flat stretches of lava field, powerful waterfalls and creaking glaciers.
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The FOK (Friends of Kirchner -- the austral equivalent to good old Friends of Bill, or Friends of Bush) control everything, with a special mention to Jorge Fernandez Campbell, owner of the sole monopoly exploiting the ultra-profitable navigation around the spectacular glaciers in Lago Argentino, the largest mass of continental ice in the world.
Pepe Escobar: Patagonia: The End of the World Is on Sale
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Already the albedo is changing beacuse the big polar glaciers are melting.
Think Progress » Attacking Global Warming Science: Where There’s George Will, There’s a Way
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Like a chunk of glacier that has somehow run aground in the middle of downtown, it evokes the unconquerably primordial nature of the Pacific Northwest's landscape.
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Some of the most dominating physical features I've ever encountered, a glacier is a vast mass of ice formed from the accumulation of snow that compacts faster than it melts and sublimates.
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Left by a passing glacier, the boulders acted as umbrellas to the softer rock beneath, protecting it from pluvial erosion.
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Deglacial interval yr represents the conceivable time range over which the paleoglacier deglaciated from successively less extensive end moraine positions.
Some Geologists at Quelccaya « Climate Audit
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It is therefore obvious that this error should be corrected (via some kind of corrigendum to the WG2 report perhaps), but it is important to realise that this doesn't mean that Himalayan glaciers are doing just fine.
RealClimate
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A country which consists largely of lava fields and glaciers, and which has a long dark winter because of its northerly position, is not a great place for agricultural produce.
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The party glissaded down Roger's Glacier, crossed rocks and swollen streams, ate supper at a hut, then descended to the lower camp at 9: 00 pm.
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On either side, in purple distance, sprang sky-piercing obelisks and vapor-mantled glaciers, spangled with bright snow, and shodden with eternal forest.
Erema
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Kenya (5), contained short-term minima in d18Odiatom attributed to glacier melting and longer term minima attributed to increased water temperatures (5, 6), in contrast to the positive relation assumed between d18O and air temperature in ice-core studies (7).
Mount Kenya « Climate Audit
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The geological formations – moraines, moraine-dammed proglacial lakes, glacier flow – are all very visible.
Dasuopu at Google Earth « Climate Audit
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They predict that in the next half a decade or so, the Himalayas could experience intense flooding as mountain lakes overflow with water from melting glaciers and snowfields.
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Coastal ecosystems have been forced to migrate staggering distances since the waning of Pleistocene glaciers began to drive the postglacial rise in global sea level, termed eustasy by geologists.
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Glaciers have deposited shale, slate, schist, and limestone throughout the region.
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Dice warned in a voice that sounded like the grating together of icebergs in a glacier.
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Built on the location of an old cannery, this new port is strategically located across from the entrance to Glacier Bay National Park.
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Increased runoff from terrestrial regions, including glaciers and ice sheets, contributes directly to eustatic rise.
Sea-level rise and coastal stability in the Arctic
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In Washington State's Mount Rainier National Park, glaciers radiate from the summit and slopes of an ancient volcano, rising above dense green forests and brilliantly flowered meadows.
Proclamation On National Park Week
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The moisture that exhaled with his breath crusted his lips and mustache with pendent ice and formed a miniature glacier on his chin.
First Version of To Build A Fire
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Temsco also offers custom tours to LeConte Glacier and Mount McKinley.
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Singular Hotels The Singular hotel has a high-speed powerboat to shuttle guests to nearby glaciers.
Chilean Patagonia
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Soar above glacial peaks and swim underwater through the icy caverns submerged within the Chaos Glacier.
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Out where whales breach and glaciers crash into the sea, kayaks can glide about without any of the spectacular local wildlife batting eyelids or beaks.
Times, Sunday Times
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The glaciers of the Himalayas, which feed the great rivers watering the farmland keeping Asia alive, are disappearing.
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Muir Glacier in Alaska, like many glaciers, has changed through time.
Cryosphere
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Horatio Chapple, an aspiring medical student from the exsclusive Britain, died Friday morning after the bear waylayed the tent he slept in with his friends on a glacier in BBC reported.
NY Daily News
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We were rewarded next day with brilliant sunshine over a vista of glaciers, bergs, mountains and a sea so dazzling it seemed unreal.
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As the tides push and suck at the shores, glaciers gnaw at mountains and rivers scour gaping canyons out of gullies, one sees plain evidence of the earth's state of continual transition.
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Moving glaciers, deep fjords, and large lakes are characteristic of South Island.
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The survey also revealed other visible evidence of the earthquake, including clearly developed scarps and cracks where the faults pass beneath glaciers.
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They have seen as well that in areas where it was possible to collect a lot of cloudberries [Rubus chamaemorus] before, now the berries are not ripe because of climatic warming and melting of glaciers.
Kola~ the Saami community of Lovozero climate change case study
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Nevertheless, the water collects in small, coalescing passageways and eventually trickles out of each glacier.
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Together, the Pleistocene and Holocene make up the Quaternary period, marked by waxing and waning of polar glaciers.
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A vast snowfield, feeding many glaciers, lay at our feet, rock-peaks and snow-covered mountains were ranged around it, whilst, far away to the westward we could just see through the haze of the valley of the Columbia River.
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They will gladly accept the conclusion that the marvellous qualities and activities of living things and that inscrutable wonder, the mind of man, are outcomes of the orderly process of Nature no less than are the miracles which we call a buttercup, a rock crystal, a glacier, the noon-day sun!
More Science From an Easy Chair
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He said the glaciers in the mountains of Europe now are crumbling due to global warming.
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Glaciers supply much of the fresh water and hydroelectric power in the region.
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The polar icecaps are melting, desalinization of the oceans is occurring, the once great glaciers will be gone within our children's lifetime and their is great destabilization of 'typical' weather patterns for each season.
Perry says Gore 'gone to hell'
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The following morning we climbed on, ascending steeply to reach the toe of the glacier that lead up to Syram and its unnamed pyramidal neighbour.
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We alternate for what seems like hours until we pass the seracs and the angle of the glacier is close to flat.
