Sentence examples for calving front from inspiring English sources

Between 2001 and 2006, the calving front withdrew nine miles.

At Kangilernata, the team was measuring the water temperatures at the base of the calving front every other day.

Its calving front, a hundred-and-thirty-foot vertical wall of ice, appeared upside down in the milky-blue waters of the fjord.

The glacier's calving front — the point at which icebergs break free — has been retreating rapidly as Greenland warms; it's now several miles further inland than it was just a decade ago.

Jakobshavn Isbrae, the largest of them, which drains 6% of Greenland's ice, is now moving at 12km a year twice as fast as it was when the UNFCCC was signed and its "calving front", where it breaks down into icebergs, has retreated by 20km in six years.

Coal-black moraines marked the retreat of its calving front.

The significant accelerations noted on the three largest glaciers began at the calving in front and propagated inland and are not seasonal in nature.

Third, the large ice caps on Greenland and Antarctica can melt and the liquid water enters the ocean; often the water transfer is added by calving at the ice fronts which result in icebergs that float into the ocean.

This glacier retreat exposed a rapidly expanding lagoon, Jökulsárlón, which is filled with icebergs calved from its front.

Thus, the primary source of outlet glacier acceleration widely observed on small and large calving glaciers in Greenland is driven by changes in dynamic forces at the glacier front, not enhanced meltwater lubrication.

The glacier's calving front the point at which icebergs break free has been retreating rapidly as Greenland warms; it's now several miles further inland than it was just a decade ago.