Sentence examples for extensive ice from inspiring English sources

The only extensive ice climate in the Northern Hemisphere is in Greenland.

Because of difficulty of access and extensive ice cover, the geology is still little known.

The extensive ice fields flow into a number of major rivers, which wind their way down through temperate rain forests to the Pacific.

These climates, although free from the extensive ice caps of today and generally more equable, suffered extreme monsoon seasons and made much of the globe arid.

Kluane National Park and Reserve, in full Kluane National Park and Reserve of Canada, vast mountain wilderness with extensive ice fields in southwestern Yukon, northwestern Canada.

South-central Alaska and adjacent Yukon and British Columbia support the most extensive ice sheets and glaciers in the world outside the polar desert regions of Antarctica and Greenland.

Extensive ice-cored moraine complexes are common elements, marking the last advance of many Svalbard glaciers.

Previous studies on the deglaciation of the Appalachians of southern Québec reconstructed only the most extensive ice-dammed lakes and the most stable glaciolacustrine water levels.

A rising permafrost table, reduced peat accumulation, and extensive ice-wedge growth resulted from climate cooling starting in the middle Holocene until the late 20th century.

The St . Elias Mountainshold the world's most-extensive ice fields outside the polar ice caps, extending south and east for some 235 miles (380 km) from the eastern part of the Chugach Mountains to the Alsek River and including the Malaspina, Guyat, Seward, Bering, and Hubbard glaciers.

Late Oligocene shallow glacimarine sequences recovered from western Ross Sea, Antarctica by the Cape Roberts (drilling) Project display orbitally-influenced cycles of advance and retreat of a laterally-extensive ice sheet across the continental shelf, in concert with changes in contemporary water-depth.