Sentence examples for cold glacier from inspiring English sources

A short tunnel lies under a glacier in Tianshan, China, but it is a "cold glacier" -- frozen to its bed.

It is envisioned that intense englacial thrusting may have developed into a decollement as the cold glacier snout got overrun by ice masses from the interior, thereby enabling the inclusion of slabs of ice in the push moraine mass.

Glacier dwarves reside in cold glaciers, mining a special material known as blue ice.

Soon I was standing at 11,000 feet on an ice-cold glacier.

They are defiant, thriving and alive "amid eternal snow, beside a cold, dead glacier".

Cold, polar glaciers flow relatively slowly, because the constitutive law of ice is sensitive to temperature and because they generally are frozen to their beds.

Through more than a century of unusually cold weather, glaciers throughout Europe had been advancing steadily, and now the great, grinding mass of the Aletsch was uprooting a forest and threatening to overwhelm the farmers' summer cottages and cow pastures.

In very cold climates, glaciers slide through the terrain, cutting deeper into valleys and gouging new ones.

Some speculate that carbon dioxide was somehow pulled from the atmosphere, removing the greenhouse blanket and forming a "Snowball Earth" so cold that glaciers covered entire continents.

That's because the layers of ocean water around Greenland are in a very unique situation, where you have colder fresh glacier meltwater near the surface over salty ocean water that, due to climate change, has been warming.

Consequently, cold-based glaciers resting on permafrost are potentially more dynamic than previously thought and are capable of creating subglacial features typically viewed as only forming beneath warm-based ice.