Sentence examples for extensive ice cover from inspiring English sources

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

The perception is that you would have had more extensive ice cover in the Antarctic Peninsula, but there's no evidence to either support or refute that.

Either prolonged and extensive ice cover of these features prior to 2 Ma, or a threefold increase in erosion rates during the Plio Pleistocene could produce the 21Ne and 10Be concentrations measured here.

The greener the water is, the more phytoplankton there are". According to satellite data, extensive ice cover reduced both the area suitable for phytoplankton growth and the length of the algal growing season, causing the observed 40percentt drop in phytoplankton, which affected the entire food chain -- from krill to penguins.

You know one of the things we don't really know for that region is how extensive the ice cover on the peninsula was during the last glacial stage, when North America, from Canada and the northern part of the U.S., and the Finnish/Scandinavian area, was covered by these large ice sheets during the last glaciation.

More recent studies challenge this view and indicate that the role of an extensive sea ice cover may have been as important in promoting abrupt climate change as reorganisations of the North Atlantic Ocean [Gildor, H., Tziperman, E., 2003. Sea-ice switches and abrupt climate change.

Poor ice conditions were more common in the past decade than in the preceding 30 years, the team reports in this month's issue of the Canadian Journal of Zoology, including less extensive total ice cover and shorter seasons for the thick ice that seals prefer.

Further south, Chilean Patagonian shores also form isolated habitats of islands and peninsulas, but at the Last Glacial Maximum (LGM), an extensive ice sheet covered most of this region [ 27, 28] (Fig. 1).

It stood out prominently from surrounding hills because of the symmetry and extensive snow and ice cover of the pre-1980 summit cone, earning it the nickname "Fuji-san of America".

They are well adapted to ice-covered waters and can easily move through extensive areas of heavy sea ice cover [ 6], although to date it has been believed that the sea ice plug in the Northwest Passage was too concentrated to allow whales to pass through.

The southern fjords and channels (SFC) of southern Chile (41°S to 56°S, Figure 1) were covered by an extensive ice sheet.