Sentence examples for glaciers slide from inspiring English sources

Fast glaciers slide on a film of water or wet sediment5.

But in some areas, it is plunging through deep holes to underlying rock, lubricating glaciers' slide to the sea.

These include how the ocean circulates below ice shelves; how floating ice fractures and calves icebergs; and how glaciers slide and erode at their bases.

In very cold climates, glaciers slide through the terrain, cutting deeper into valleys and gouging new ones.

In September 2002, roughly 100 million cubic meters of rock and ice crashed down onto the Kolka and Maili glaciers in Russia's Kazbek Massif, sending both glaciers sliding toward the Genaldon River valley.

Schoof, C. The effect of cavitation on glacier sliding.

Fowler, A. C. A mathematical approach to the theory of glacier sliding.

Subglacial imprints indicative of thawed-bed conditions and reshaping by glacier sliding (e.g., fluting, drumlins, striae) are lacking.

The simulated alpine landscape is modified through the competing processes of glacier erosion, which is dependent on glacier sliding velocity and prescribed bedrock erodibility, and prescribed uplift rate.

Although the process of glacier sliding over bedrock is understood in a general way, none of several detailed theories has been confirmed by field observation.

Typically the foreign clients who pay up to $50,000£32,00000) for a chance to reach the summit on commercial expeditions only pass through the icefall – a lethal jumble of blocks of ice and crevasses formed when the Khumbu glacier slides over cliffs on Everest's lower slopes – once or twice.