Sentence examples for basin ice from inspiring English sources

A slab of coastal ice is all that is stopping the giant Wilkes Basin ice sheet from slipping into the sea.

Glacier melt provides stream flow to well-established channels and closed-basin, ice-covered lakes on the valley floor.

But they believe the basin of ice is probably two or three kilometres thick, moving at a few centimetres a year and overturning in half a million years.

In the window at Rainbow Ace Hardware in Yorkville, he found the aptly named Cool Bar, a table with a basin for ice and bottles that can also be used to store things like flip-flops and garden supplies, he said.

Alexander Trowbridge of Purdue University in Indiana and colleagues writing in Nature, suggest that the wedges of frozen nitrogen are evidence of a basin of ice perhaps 10km thick, being refreshed over the course of a million years or so by convection movement at speeds of 1.5cm a year.

And in West Antarctica a wall of glaciers separating a vast basin of ice from the sea is coming apart far faster than anticipated, suggesting that quite a lot of sea level rise is now unavoidable and will occur faster and more dramatically than anticipated.So, time to sell that oceanfront property?

We can expect the hemispheric and continent/ocean differentials to continue, though not necessarily the transatlantic one, so substantial further warming is likely over both Europe and North America.In the Arctic basin sea-ice may vanish altogether in the summer by the 2020s; this will probably generate a dynamic of its own.

An IRSL-date of glaciolacustrine sediments (32.4±9.4 ka BP) confirms the Wurmian age for the glaciation and radiocarbon ages of the basal sediments (12.3±0.4 and 12.5±0.2 ka BP uncalibrated) in the lake Kleiner Arbersee prove that the basin was ice-free before the Younger Dryas.

Catastrophic shifts in drainage direction (from Atlantic to Pacific) in several basins, as ice dams collapsed during the retreat of glaciers, have been implicated as important vectors of gene flow from E → W across the Andean divide for G. platei [ 7, 20].

This can typically be achieved by immersion techniques using a tub or other basin filled with ice cold water or via rotating cold ice towels over the body.

At various moments, under different kinds of stress, Salinger smashes a telephone, stomps on an audio recorder, plunges his face into a basin full of ice water and smacks a dead man.