Sentence examples for expanse of ice from inspiring English sources

He would stretch an arm out and gesture at the vast expanse of ice, glowing in the soft light.

As he heaved the sledge over tiny bumps dotting an endless expanse of ice, the 55-year-old former army officer reveled in Antarctica's "unbelievable science".

Then there is the western shelf, an expanse of ice and snow roughly the size of Texas and largely below sea level.

The vast expanse of ice floating on the surface of the Arctic Ocean always recedes in the summer, reaching its lowest point sometime in September.

The state-financed broadcaster Russia Today posted video of the researchers at the frigid Antarctic outpost, including clips of them snowmobiling around the endless expanse of ice and snow and watching supply planes land.

In 1894, fifteen years before his storied expedition to the North Pole, Robert Peary crossed a treacherous expanse of ice in Greenland in search of another prize: a massive meteorite laden with rare metals from outer space.

The unprecedented expanse of ice-free Arctic Ocean has been absorbing the 24-hour sun over the short polar summer.

As these expanses of ice flow from land into water, they form floating extensions, or shelves.

During the Pleistocene Epoch (i.e., about 2,600,000 to 11,700 years ago), the river valleys were covered several times by great expanses of ice.

The coasts of Antarctica are ringed with ice shelves – large expanses of ice that float on the surrounding ocean and form the outermost extensions of the glaciers that cover the land behind them.

Because the young Sun put out 30percentt less energy than it does today, temperatures on Earth might have been cold enough for parts of the surface to have been covered by expanses of ice.