Sentence examples for floating glacier from inspiring English sources

These alterations have affected the grounding line, where grounded glaciers lift off their beds to form ice shelves or floating glacier tongues.

We wash it down with Scotch whiskey cooled by a 5,000-year-old 5,000-year-old 5,000-year-oldhe floatice glacube bits.

Immediately to the south, the bay terminates at the Drygalski Ice Tongue, a gigantic, floating glacier, formed where the East Antarctic Ice Sheet pours through a low stretch of the mountains.

Japanese tourists are swarming it for selfies and poses, and we leave for a quick hop-on hop-off bus tour of the 1,000-year-old city - Royal Palace, National Theatre, parliament, and the new Opera House which is meant to represent a floating glacier - well, to each his vision.

Empirical studies of grounded (not floating) tidewater glaciers in Alaska, Svalbard, and elsewhere suggest that the speed of iceberg calving is roughly proportional to water depth at the terminus.

Other clips take place in New York City, with one presenting what is intended to be "incredible footage" from a cellphone camera of a Rockies glacier floating along the East River.

Some brainstorming led to the idea that "something happened in the Rockies that brought the cans to life," he adds, with the glaciers "floating across the country carrying the cans".

The same records revealed that from 2002 to 2014 the area of the glacier's floating shelf shrank by a massive 95%, according to a report in the journal Science.

At some point, we regained the equanimity to turn our backs and continue the hike, which passed uneventfully — if you can call four hours in the company of bald eagles, wildflowers, flickering cottonwoods and a lake flowing from the mouth of a glacier and floating an armada of crystalline icebergs uneventful.

From that point downstream, the glacier is floating on the surface of the ocean.

In 2002 the 12 km long floating terminus of the glacier entered a phase of rapid retreat, with the ice front breaking up and the floating terminus disintegrating and accelerating to a retreat rate of over 30 m per day.