Sentence examples for basal ice from inspiring English sources

Really: the centerpiece of the restaurant is a black steel "sculptural freezer reliquary," as Mr. Goggin called it, a cradle that will house an ancient two-ton block of blue ice that is planned to be wrested from the Greenland Basal Ice Sheet by a scientific expedition next March.

Debris-rich ice is often encountered when drilling into basal ice and rock glaciers.

High erosion rates result from steep thermal gradients in basal ice.

Airborne radar surveys performed over East Antarctica reveal massive and widespread bodies of accreted basal ice.

When drilling into subglacial bedrock, drill operators commonly encounter basal ice containing high concentrations of rock debris and melt water.

Both bedrocks and erratics show similar exposure ages, suggesting the presence of warm basal ice during the last glacial period, which would have included subglacial water channels.

A clearly defined erosion boundary across the landscape reveals the transition in basal ice-sheet conditions as ice flow became channelized into northern Baffin Island fiords.

The debris content of non-basal ice in Antarctica is 0.2 2 g m-3 [43] 43], most of which was originally aeolian in origin.

Theoretical models of subglacial erosion generally highlight the influence of basal sliding in setting the pace of erosion, but they also point to a strong influence of other subglacial properties, such as effective bed pressure and basal-ice debris concentration.

The sample from Canada Glacier (C1) was also from basal, sediment-rich ice.

We find a correlation between low basal roughness, fast ice flow, and subglacial troughs.