Sentence examples for glaciated surface from inspiring English sources
In these so-called barren lands the soils, where they exist at all on the heavily glaciated surface, are usually sandy and thin.
Despite its extension and high altitude, the steep relief of Sierra Nevada and its southern location conditioned a significantly lower glaciated surface (104.6 km2) with respect to other Iberian massifs.
The ice-sheet/drainage model was scaled down to generate spatially and temporally variable hydraulic and mechanical glaciated surface boundary conditions for site-scale subsurface HM modelling and permafrost modelling.
This site-scale HM model was driven by transient hydraulic and mechanical glaciated surface boundary conditions generated by the University of Edinburgh's continental-scale model of Laurentide ice-sheet history during the last glacial cycle, which lasted approximately 100 000 years.
"In one century, we have lost seventy percent of the glaciated surface," said Bondesan, a coordinator for the Italian Glaciological Committee.
The three fittest men Shackleton, Crean, and Worsley were therefore required to trek 30 smi across the island's glaciated surface, in a hazardous 36-hour journey to the nearest manned whaling station.
In Antarctica, for example, potassium-argon age determinations of lava overlying glaciated surfaces and sedimentary deposits of glacial origin show that glaciers existed on this continent at least 10 million years ago.
During the H2 regime, three watersheds with greatest glaciated surfaces straddling the Karakoram Mountains contribute 48 54% of flows at Shatial Bridge, a point upstream of Tarbela reservoir up to which rainfall contributions to river discharges in UIB are inconsequential.
Roche moutonnée, ( French: "fleecy rock") English sheepback, or sheep rock, glaciated bedrock surface, usually in the form of rounded knobs.
Chatter mark, small, curved fracture found on glaciated rock surfaces.
Relict non-glacial surfaces occur within many formerly glaciated landscapes and contain important information on past surface processes and long-term landscape evolution.
