Sentence examples for flow of ice from inspiring English sources

Similar findings were announced earlier this year by scientists measuring the flow of ice streams on the Antarctic Peninsula.

If that happened a natural barrier to the flow of ice from glaciers and land-covering ice sheets into the oceans would be removed.

"Wind-induced, year-to-year differences in the rate of flow of ice toward and through Fram Strait play an important role in modulating September sea ice extent on a year-to-year basis," the scientists say.

In the ebb and flow of ice, the shrouding and lifting of the fog, this unhurried game of destruction and renewal, concealment and revelation, has played itself out again and again in Glacier Bay.

But they act like a cork in a bottle at the point where glaciers meet the sea – jamming the flow of ice from the massive ice sheets of east and west Antarctica.

The flow of ice across the continent also tends to carry these extraterrestrial interlopers "downhill" from their impact sites, concentrating them in areas like the great Transantarctic Mountain range.

A poor man, he lives in luxury in Dodd's entourage, which is maintained lavishly by donations from wealthy acolytes and held in good running order by Dodd's wife, Peggy played by Amy Adams, who shares in the perfect period stillness, holding her head and her gaze fixed as she speaks with a calmly flowing stream of ice-cold thoughts.

McKinnon said the team's leading theory for the formation of the plains and flows of ice is "heat leaking out of the interior of Pluto" – an internal energy driving change on its surface.

In this southern region, flows of ice "seem to have moved and surrounded and embayed" the mountains, he said, forming "a lot of fine structure" that differs from elsewhere on the dwarf planet.

Opponents argue that drilling in the Arctic would be reckless because long periods of darkness and powerful flows of ice would make a cleanup of any spill difficult if not impossible.

Just to get to McCarthy, once a boomtown of bootleggers and prostitutes supporting the miners up the valley, travelers had to follow the 60-mile gravel bed of an abandoned railroad, "a route frequently closed in winter by drifts and freeze-thaw flows of ice that locals attacked with chainsaws and winches," then cross a footbridge across the icy Kennicott River.