Sentence examples for glacial rate from inspiring English sources

The southern flank of the Kilauea volcano on Hawaii, a possible location of a future giant landslide, is continually in motion without posing any danger, sliding at a glacial rate of three to four inches a year.

Unwinding at the glacial rate of about one frame every 20 minutes, it makes "24 Hour Psycho" look like the Keystone Kops, and it might have sated even Elster's need for slow time.

Along with Samsung, we also discuss the glacial rate of adoption for Android 5.0 Lollipop, which has managed to get only just under 2percentt of the overall OS share for active Android devices this month.

According to theory, planets in such distant orbits move so slowly that they should grow at a glacial rate and top out at masses well short of Jupiter's before the disk disperses.

We live in an age where it is perfectly acceptable to toss uneaten foodstuffs and wilted flowers along with non-recyclables to spend their dank days on earth decomposing at a glacial rate.

At its present, glacial rate of recruitment, vetting and training, the American enlistment of Syrian rebels to fight ISIS would meet its modest personnel goal perhaps by mid-century.

Leaves expand at glacial rates, and there are no new flowers.

This would immediately reenergise development of technologies for carbon capture and storage that for more than a decade have been progressing at glacial rates.

Distinguishing between periglacial and glacial rates is especially challenging.

Apparent basin-averaged erosion rates amalgamate valley wall and ridge erosion with stream and glacial rates.

The findings presented here have clear implications for the impact of glaciations on the evolution of landscapes including: (1) the climatic "window" in which glaciers are more erosive compared to pre-glacial rates; (2) spatial and temporal variations in denudation that can lead to pulses of erosion; and (3) predictions of glacial erosional efficiency at different latitudes.