Sentence examples for a small glacier from inspiring English sources
When she cracks and dissolves it's as if a small glacier has moved.
It starts in the Arctic, but climate change impacts on the rest of the globe as well.' The centrepiece of the Tory visit will be a trip by dogsled to Scott Turnerbreen, a small glacier named after the chief executive of the American Coal Company, which operated in Longyearbyen in the Thirties.
Then in the space of two minutes he had maneuvered himself, wineglass in hand, to within two feet of Nan Kempner, the socialite, who was sporting a small glacier on her right hand that seemed to have the same effect on him as a tall glass of Scotch might on a recovering alcoholic.
A small glacier lake known as Nagma Pokhari sits nestled in a valley near Mount Everest in Nepal, surrounded by steep walls of sediment that hold the icy waters in place.
The study area comprises a small glacier (400 1000 m a.s.l)., on the south side of Adventfjorden (78°11′N) that was polythermal during the LIA and turned into a passively down-wasting cold-based ice-mass prior to 1936.
After a desperate dash over the moving floes, they managed to reach a small glacier tongue.
"I'm the cliché country boy in the big city," said Mr. Hart, who lived just down the street from the MacDowell Colony, the century-old writers' retreat, and once described his favorite place in the world as "a small glacier-fed lake in New Hampshire during summertime, at dusk".
The revived moss was recovered by drillers working on the banks of Signy Island, a small, glacier-covered isle in the Drake Passage, according to Discovery News.
Additionally, the Dakshin Gangotri Glacier, a small outlet glacier of the Antarctic ice sheet, receded at an average rate of 0.7 m per year from 1983 to 2002.
Though in a state of recession, a dozen small glaciers persist at the higher elevations near the highest peaks in the range.
Persistent ice retreat in Cascade Canyon was slowed by an interval of small glacier activity between ∼13.5 and 11.5 ka, prior to the end of glacial lacustrine sedimentation ∼11.5 ka.
