Sentence examples for glacier cap from inspiring English sources

"Because of pressure from the glacier cap, it is uncertain whether the eruption will stay sub-glacial or not".

Take a day trip to Aconcagua and its glacier capped peak, to experience the Andes up close.

They are also swollen by melting glaciers, ice caps and ice sheets: Greenland's ice is on track to melt completely, which will eventually raise the sea level by about seven metres (23ft).

Monitoring the evolution of polar glaciers, ice caps and ice streams is of utmost importance because they constitute a good indicator of global climate change and contribute significantly to ongoing sea level rise.

Now You See It... Now You Don't as the world's glaciers, polar caps, and ice sheets melt away.

The close association between relative sea-level changes, glacier retreat and cap dolostone deposition across the Taoudéni Basin implies that cap dolostones formed largely over a period of ∼104 years, the maximum interval over which isostatic rebound is likely to operate.

Now, a new paper from researchers at the University of Colorado, Boulder, offers the most up-to-date and comprehensive numbers on glacier and ice cap melt worldwide.

It is headed, "Inverted 2003-2010 mass balance rates", and shows the world's 20 largest GICs (glacier and ice cap regions) and by how many gigatonnes (Gt) each one has increased or decrease over that time period.

Fewer than 120 (0.075%) have had their mass balance (the sum of the annual mass gains and losses of the glacier or ice cap) directly measured, and for only 37 of these are there records extending beyond 30 years.

The bottom layer of this meltwater will re-freeze, ensuring that the glacier or ice cap keeps its size or continues to grow.

e360: And [the Bruce Plateau] is basically a big ice cap or glacier in the midst of these beautiful mountains that run the length of the Antarctic Peninsula?