Sentence examples for dead ice from inspiring English sources
noun
Former glacier ice that is not longer connected to the active glacier, therefore not moving anymore and getting covered with sediments.
Our data suggest the persistence of dead ice in the basin up to the Older Dryas (Lacustrine Phase).
The 14 11 km long Oder and Bode Valley glaciers left typical moraines, kames, or dead ice depressions, such as fluvial cave relic sediments.
Masses of dead ice, severed from the main ice sheet by emerging bedrock highs, downwasted in situ within valleys and lake basins and were commonly buried by sediment.
They are studded with ponds, often resulting from the decay of buried "dead ice," and littered with boulders of all sizes brought by the ice from Scandinavia.
The shrinking snout had left behind enormous hunks of what glaciologists call "dead ice," which were melting on the glacier's trail.
Their origin is mainly connected to the melting of blocks of dead ice in the phase of advanced recession of the ice-sheet in the Wartanian Stadial of the Odranian Glaciation.
As the Doctor reasoned with Skaldak by appealing to his Martian sense of honor, the previously-presumed-dead Ice Warriors arrived in their ship and used their tractor beam to lift the sub off the ocean floor.
What are the conditions for dead-ice formation?
We argue that observed large scale depressions are dead-ice features in the marine environment.
Thus ages from boulders resting in dead-ice moraines and mass wasting landscapes underestimate deglaciation by 3 6 thousand years.
Kötlujökull provides suitable conditions of studying dead-ice melting and landscape formation in a debris-charged lowland glacier environment.
