Sentence examples for glaciers into from inspiring English sources

Water flowing from the surface could ease the passage of the glaciers into the sea.

The island consists of layered basaltic and sedimentary rock sculpted by glaciers into linear ridges and valleys.

That may set adrift an iceberg as big as Jamaica, and speed the flow of hitherto pent-up glaciers into the sea.

Such rivers as the Yuba, American, Mokelumne, Stanislaus, Merced, and Kern originate in deep valleys carved largely by glaciers into the predominant granite and some volcanics.

Melted water flows to the base of glaciers, acting as a lubricant that speeds the sliding of the glaciers into the ocean.

Thus, the goals of this expedition are to collect data that will shed light on the sensitivity of Himalayan mountain glaciers to rising atmospheric temperatures, and to place these glaciers into the context of past climate change.

As Quentin runs he thinks of going toward the shimmering dinosaur he now saw leading his family away from the approaching glacier into the desert to die.

The calving of the glacier into chunks of floating ice will set in train a rise in sea levels that will continue for decades to come, the US team warns.

But this week saw the publication, in a paper in Nature Geoscience, of the first evidence linking the two.Zhigang Peng, a seismologist at the Georgia Institute of Technology, in Atlanta, and colleagues noticed that glacial calving the falling of large chunks of ice from the end of a glacier into the sea can be triggered by earthquakes that originate thousands of kilometres away.

It's known that water melts from the glacier into the north end of the lake and freezes onto the underside of the glacier at the south end.

Because of its remote location, the crash site was abandoned, the debris digested within a few days by the active glacier into which it fell.