Sentence examples for compacted ice from inspiring English sources

Little is known about thickness, nor about the density of different layers of snow and compacted ice.

The Highways Agency has cleared it of compacted ice and there is a 40 mph speed limit in place.

Other tests, such as those which Boeing undertakes, force a steady stream of water or fire loosely compacted ice into the engines to mimic the effects of cruising through a hail cloud.

The compacted ice pushes the fragile shelf closer to collapse by allowing meltwater to pool on its surface.

The surrounding forest may be completely clear of snow later in the spring but there is still that solid strip of compacted ice.

Sadly, though we attempt it twice, we don't make it to Vernadsky due to compacted ice and a captain reluctant to run the risk of becoming trapped.

"Ice is a bartender's heat," says Michel Dozois, whose company Neve (the word means a kind of compacted glacial ice) has been on the forefront of the specialty ice movement since Dozois started it way back in 2007 — a whole Ice Age ago in the world of craft cocktails.

The snow melts slowly because it has been compacted into ice and encrusted with sand.

Snow falls in central Greenland year-round and it never melts, although, over time, the snow gets compacted into ice and is pressed out toward the coast.

Formed by a high pressure zone over the Pacific Ocean to the west of Chile, reacting with lows over the Atlantic east of Argentina to produce snow that is compacted to ice on the Andes, Patagonia's glaciers crawl inexorably toward the sea or its myriad lakes.

The ejected crater mass is consistent with the ejected mass of craters on compact ice.