Sentence examples for glaciers off from inspiring English sources
The thundering collapse of ice from towering glaciers off the Antarctic Peninsula highlights their vulnerability to the warming trend there in recent decades.
In some coastal areas the tongues of ice-shelf glaciers break off to form icebergs.
The result, each 'slide' of these multi-ton glaciers sets off an 'ice quake' that register an average of 3 to 5 on the Richter scale.
While a handful of researchers, scientists and naturalists have all watched enormous glaciers calve off into the oceans, no one seems to have the same intimacy with ice like James Balog.
I walk past the Baruch College business school, whose sooty, sloping facade is a late-summer glacier slumping off the corner of East 24th Street and Lexington Avenue.
A portion of the glacier sheared off and an estimated 2.1 billion cubic feet of snow, trees, ice, debris, rock, mud and water continued to rumble toward the bottom of the mountain.
The horribly plausible Jan had basically trekked up to a Norwegian glacier, hacked off some ice with the permission of the Norwegian government and was now proposing to flog it to five-star hotels as the perfect accompaniment to bottles of rare single malt.
It reminded me a lot of Everest Base Camp, where Id been the previous year: stark colors, stormy lighting, ice penitentes and a sweeping glacier rolling off the sheer walls at the opposite end of the valley.
Earlier in the last century, it is believed this same glacier calved off the iceberg that ultimately sunk the Titanic.
Imagine spending a month in the same spot on top of the Greenland Ice Sheet in the hopes of seeing a glacier calve off?
The Harding Icefield, rugged mountaintops ensconced in interconnected glaciers, was just off to the northeast.
