Sentence examples for glaciers form from inspiring English sources

The Fairweather Range of hills which feeds the John Hopkins and Margerie Glaciers form the western boundary of the Glacier Bay and the highest mountains seen here are the Mt. Fairweather (15300 feet), Mt. Quincy Adams (13650 feet), Mt. Salisbury (12000 feet), Mt. Crillon (12276 feet), Mt. Bertha (10204 feet), Mt. Abbe (8750 feet) and Mt. Cooper (6780 feet).

The Himalayan-Hindu Kush mountain glaciers form the water towers of Asia.

Dr. Runnegar prefers the less draconian "Slushball Earth" explanation, where the Earth cools enough that glaciers form on land, but the tropical oceans stay free of ice.

Shaking you out of the pimpled conviction that you can do whatever you want whenever you want simply because you're special is one of school's most useful functions, far more so than learning your times tables or how glaciers form.

On the eastern side of the ice field, the run-off from glaciers form large lakes, such as the three milky blue lakes in this image: Lago San Martin, Viedma Lake, and Lago Argentina (from north to south).

Portions of sea-buried end moraines, which mark the limit of the tonguing glaciers, form offshore banks and islands east and south of Newfoundland, Nova Scotia, and New England.

Temperatures were substantially lower, and local glaciers formed on the highest peaks.

Glaciers formed almost entirely of drift snow occur at high altitudes in Colorado and in the polar Ural Mountains and are often referred to as Ural-type glaciers.

He said: "Why did you think of that?" And I said: "For me that was the key to the movie, the glaciers forming".

OSLO (Reuters) — Giant glaciers formed about 90 million years ago during a warm period when alligators thrived in the Arctic, researchers said Thursday, calling into question the belief that all ice melts in a "super greenhouse" climate.

The study estimated that glaciers formed during a 200,000-year period some 91 million years ago, creating ice sheets that were perhaps 60percentt of the size of the modern Antarctic ice cap.