Sentence examples for glacial terrain from inspiring English sources

Our transport was an 8WD modified military cruise-missile launcher, a monstrous vehicle perfectly matched to Iceland's treacherous glacial terrain.

In the stormy Monashee mountains, three snowcats deliver you up to 6,000m of vertical descent a day, encompassing glades, steep alpine and even glacial terrain.

The Australian Antarctic Division said the islands are "one of the most biologically pristine areas in the world", featuring seals, penguins and seabirds, as well as a volcanic, glacial terrain.

At a few locales which may be ice-wedge polygonal grounds, glacial terrain and zones of recent coastal uplift, wetland occurrence can become extensive, forming a mosaic that comprises patches of different wetland types.

In the lower reaches of the Calder (Lancashire) tributary of the Ribble catchment (northwest England), five river terraces set into the surrounding glacial terrain have been mapped and their underlying sediments radiocarbon dated.

Analysis of the characteristics of the subglacial landscape combined with a relative-age chronology established with field-based indicators, led to the recognition of disjoint zones with internally-consistent glacial histories – termed glacial terrain zones (GTZ).

Glacial terrains are commonly recorded using a landsystem approach, which allows detailed documentation of the geomorphological evolution of the landscape.

Understanding gained from this analysis should significantly improve the design of lumped-parameter hydrologic models of undulatory glacial terrains.

In almost all former and presently glaciated areas of the world, glaciers have modified or even transformed pre-glacial terrain during the many cold stages of the Pleistocene.

The team of 7 British & 2 Americans led by Dave Vaughan & Hugh Corr flew 30 km grid patterns over the PIG until mid-January 5, mapping the sub-glacial terrain of that area roughly equal to the size of the State of Nevada.

Given the occurrence of contaminants, the public health concerns stemming from these new data on regional-scale PhAC and pesticide concentrations, and the local flow conditions observed in post-glacial terrains, there is a clear need to investigate the sources and behaviours of local-scale pollutants.