Sentence examples for blocks of glacier from inspiring English sources

5. Buried ice in permafrost includes buried sea, lake, and river ice and recrystallized snow, as well as buried blocks of glacier ice in permafrost climate.

We walked along the gray strand where the blocks of glacier rocked gently in the tide, and we gathered in our hands the cocktail-size ice cubes that had washed up on shore and flung them back to the sea.

The company has been mining two-ton blocks of ice from a glacier near Narsaq, about 15 miles southeast of Nuuk, and plans to start selling the water obtained as a byproduct of its icecap rock operations.

Similar processes determine the specific features of natural phenomena such as the growth of biological tissues, glaciers, blocks of sedimentary and volcanic rocks, space objects, etc.

The swamp is one of many in the area fed by "freshwater kettles" – ponds formed by blocks of ice left by receding glaciers during the ice age.

There is no end of books that explain how, 13,000 or 15,000 years ago, huge blocks of ice left over after the glacier retreated began melting, leaving holes known as kettles that ultimately filled with water.

The floors of glacier caves usually consist of rock.

The shape of the channel and the degree to which the glacier fills it determine the type of glacier.

The future discharge is simulated for three stages of glacier coverage: 100% glaciers, 50% glaciers and 0% glaciers.

First the historical evolution of glaciers is calibrated using the recent location of glacier tongues and secondly the hydrological processes are optimized using discharge observations.

We have assumed that basal sliding is the major process of glacier movement and that the resistance to glacier slip is dominated by drag over bed irregularities.