Sentence examples for continental ice from inspiring English sources
It shows how little we still know about the bedrock below large continental ice sheets".
The shelf has the same layered structure as the continental ice sheet from which it flowed.
The polar regions were free of continental ice sheets, their land instead covered by forest.
Because of their enormous weight, continental ice sheets depress the Earth's crust.
The Weichsel Glacial Stage followed the Eemian Interglacial Stage and marks the last major incursion of Pleistocene continental ice sheets.
Floating ice shelves are a continuation of the flowing mass of ice that makes up the continental ice sheet.
Nunatak, isolated mountain peak that once projected through a continental ice sheet or an Alpine-type ice cap.
Snow precipitation is offset mainly by continental ice moving seaward by three mechanisms ice-shelf flow, ice-streamechanisms ice-shelfow.
Submerged on the continental shelf are even larger sculpted troughs formed by ice streams, large fast-moving tongues of ice draining from continental ice sheets.
Causal factors leading to the birth and development of these continental ice sheets and then to their decay and death are, nevertheless, still poorly understood.
Only tillites formed from the till deposited by continental ice sheets have a good chance of being preserved in the geologic record.
