Sentence examples for active glacier from inspiring English sources

(The Fram will also head to Greenland this summer, with eight-day trips that include viewings of Jakobshavn Glacier — "the world's most active glacier," according to the company — and walking tours of several Inuit villages and towns).

Because of its remote location, the crash site was abandoned, the debris digested within a few days by the active glacier into which it fell.

Two findings emerged this week: the possibility of an active glacier far from the planet's poles and evidence that sulfur--not carbon--was the element driving the planet's warmer climate long ago.

To test to what extent these dates reflect the onset of deglaciation immediately after cessation of active glacier flow, surface exposure ages are evaluated against independent chronologies of Late Weichselian ice-sheet fluctuations in southwestern Scandinavia.

It is not an active glacier.

Heading toward the Aialik Glacier on a memorable day paddle that brought us near wildlife, geological formations, and to an active glacier that took our breath away each time it loudly dropped a piece of ice into the bay.

By 2030, Glacier National Park is likely to be stripped of its active glaciers.

Active glaciers are found on the highest peak, Mount Olympus (7,965 feet [2,428 metres]), and on others.

To watch one of Alaska's most active glaciers "calve," or shed parts of itself, is to encounter nature at its most awesome.

These ranges were heavily eroded by several episodes of glaciation the most recent ended about 7,500 years ago, and no active glaciers remain resulting in spectacular alpine scenery.

Heavily glaciated Kerguelen Island, about 100 miles (160 km) in length, has active glaciers and peaks up to 6,445 feet (1,965 metres).