Sentence examples for base of ice from inspiring English sources

They were deposited in pressurized tunnels at the base of ice sheets during melting phases.

These pools form at the base of ice floes during the summer months from meltwater runoff.

Why is it so hard to study the base of ice sheets?

The Crunch Long John is topped with a thick base of icing, toasted coconuts and a variety of nuts, while the Holland Cream is filled (and topped) with butter cream.

"All that heat just gets trapped at a depth where it can melt the base of the ice shelves and the grounded ice that's sitting in the ocean".

Not only is the ice cream made on-site but —unlike with most ice cream companies — so is the base of that ice cream.

"If you have a future eruption it's going to increase the heat flow, so you're going to have more melting in the surrounding area, which will then lead to more water at the base of the ice sheet and cause the overlying ice flow to increase in velocity because it's been lubricated".

But other researchers pointed out that the diatom fossils might have blown onto the ice sheet and slowly made their way down to the base of the ice.

From this core, specifically from ice that is thought to have formed from lake water freezing onto the base of the ice sheet, extremophile microbes were found, suggesting that the lake water supports life.

The sliding patterns are controlled by ice configuration and the resulting basal shear stresses and by the thermal properties at the base of the ice.

Satellite data have demonstrated that the areal extent of the Arctic ice canopy has decreased over the past few decades, however, whether sea ice thickness in the Arctic Ocean has substantially decreased remains controversial because of limited information available for the base of the ice canopy.