Sentence examples for glacial flood from inspiring English sources

But the most potent type of glacial flood is caused by an erupting volcano.

"An eruption beneath a thick glacier often leads to a hazardous glacial flood that can begin within minutes to several hours after the eruption has started," Dr. Roberts said.

On the basis of measurements taken off the northern coasts of Alaska and Canada in the Beaufort Sea, the scientists say they detected the signature of a huge glacial flood event that occurred around the same time.

In order to undertake these measures, Lliuya asks the company to contribute around €20,000 (£14,250), an amount equivalent to 0.47% of the projected total costs to drain or reinforce the lake and install a glacial flood outburst early warning system.

In the Panjshir flood, an icecap melted, reportedly triggering a small landslide, which then in turn caused a glacial flood.

Where else on earth have glacial floods occurred?

In addition to glacial floods, Himalayan countries have to battle other severe consequences of climate change.

(a) The eruption sites, ice cauldrons and pathways of jökulhlaups (glacial floods).

An example, described below, occurs where cataclysmic glacial floods invaded valley systems formed by overland flow processes in a non-glacial climatic regime.

Glacial floods occur in many regions of the world where mountaintop glaciers sit on top of volcanic regions, as they do here.

Since modern salmon first appeared 100 million year ago, the Northwest's populations have endured cataclysmic lava flows and glacial floods, shifting rivers and rising mountains.