Sentence examples for extension of ice from inspiring English sources

A floating ice sheet of considerable thickness attached to a coast (usually of great horizontal extent with a level or gently undulating surface); often a seaward extension of ice sheets.

A number of studies have described the extension of ice cover in western Patagonia during the Last Glacial Maximum, providing evidence of a complete cover of terrestrial habitat from 41°S to 56°S and two main refugia, one in south-eastern Tierra del Fuego and the other north of the Chiloé Island.

Known as tidewater glaciers, these glaciers are the seaward extensions of ice streams originating in ice fields, ice caps, or ice sheets.

In front of Sléttjökull, a northern lobate extension of the ice cap, a fan from the 10th century AD is capped by neoglacial till sheets.

The acidic residues of RII not only help coordinate Ca2+ to stabilize the protein's fold, but also may be repelled from the negatively charged cell surface for better extension of the ice-binding domain.

Widespread collapse of Antarctic ice shelves – floating extensions of land ice projecting into the sea – could pave the way for dramatic rises in sea level.

In this view, extension of the Laurentide ice sheet to the northeast constituted the Innuitian ice sheet that made the North American glacial masses continuous with the Greenland ice sheet, effectively sealing the Americas from Asia for several millennia.

This has coincided with a marked increase in glacial activity and the collapse of several ice shelves, including Prince Gustav and Larsen A and B. Ice shelves are floating extensions of the grounded ice covering the continent.

Neon hair extensions were frozen in a tall column of ice.

At the same time, "the machines have given artists more of an extension of their talent," said Randy Finch, co-owner of Ice Sculptures Ltd., based in Grand Rapids, Mich.

The igloo was really an extension of the self — shoulder blades of snow and backbone of ice, beneath which a family slept, swathed in thick animal fur, beside one or two small lamps burning blubber.