Sentence examples for formation of ice sheets from inspiring English sources
The areas of lowland central Alaska, the central Yukon territory, and the Far East region of Russia, which had climates too arid to permit the formation of ice sheets, were connected by the Bering Land Bridge, across which many species migrated.
More-uncertain outcomes — the possible collapse of ice sheets and the formation of deep-sea dead zones as a result of onshore pollution — play out differently for better and worse.
Complex interactions between katabatic winds and the cryosphere may lead to the formation of sedimentation waves at the surface of ice sheets.
They are huge assemblies of equations that describe how sunlight warms the Earth, and how that absorbed energy influences the motion of the winds and oceans, the formation and dissipation of clouds, the melting of ice sheets, and many other things besides.
The altimeter system, measuring the time it takes light pulses to travel to a reflecting object and back to the satellite, will calculate the precise elevations and positions of ice sheets, icebergs, clouds and land formations.
Ice streams are fed by tributaries that can extend deep into the heart of ice sheets.
Furthermore, it is likely that global cooling, together with the opening of the Drake Passage, led to the formation of Antarctic ice sheets at the EOB (DeConto and Pollard 2003) that further enhanced global cooling and aridification.
