Sentence examples for gaps in the ice from inspiring English sources

Along two walls are long gaps in the ice, slashed out with a chain saw.

They also pointed out that previous Pioneer and Voyager spacecraft, on fly-by missions, had passed safely through gaps in the ice, dust and rock of the rings.

They range from the Bering Strait to perennial gaps in the ice off Russia and Greenland.

Gaps in the ice are not significant, nor are very short bursts of melting.

The camera had a time exposure, so Strindberg was able to take a picture of the three of them trying to force a sledge through a gap in the ice.

The whales had been jockeying for space to breathe through a gap in the ice.

They found that when mercury and ozone levels began to recover after depletion events, the air masses associated with those rises had recently passed over gaps in the sea ice.

"There's a feature in there that's so sharp, it's probably a fracture". Another radar echo track, acquired this time in the Arctic, illustrates Cryosat's ability to see the gaps, or leads, in the ice - something it has to do to make an assessment of ice thickness.

And so it was that early this morning we trooped out to a frozen inlet to watch the Prince and the team don bright orange "immersion suits" and throw themselves one by one into a "lead", the technical name for a gap in the sea ice of the sort they will have to cross with their floating sledges throughout April.

Other recent reports of changes under way in the natural world, like gaps in sea ice at the North Pole or shifts in animal populations, can still be ascribed to other factors, many scientists say, but many add that having such a rapid erosion of glaciers in so many places is harder to explain except by global warming.

When snow melts on the surface of these ice bodies during the warmer months, meltwater collects in gaps in the firn on the way down to the layer of glacial ice below.