Sentence examples for ice fronts from inspiring English sources

Historical records, mapping, and photographic information date back only to 1897, but tree-ring studies near the ice fronts have provided information that extends back several centuries.

Third, the large ice caps on Greenland and Antarctica can melt and the liquid water enters the ocean; often the water transfer is added by calving at the ice fronts which result in icebergs that float into the ocean.

Microstructural investigations revealed the unique arrangements of the platelets within and out of the lamella walls, where the upward moving ice fronts aligned the platelets' in-plane direction to the ice-growth direction.

Because the x-ray image is a two-dimensional projection of the three-dimensional insect, it was not possible to make accurate measurements of ice crystal size, nor was it possible to accurately measure the rate of spread of ice fronts due to overlap of ice in the (indistinguishable) third dimension.

DOI: http://dx.doi.org/10.7554/eLife.05142.013 10.7554/eLiFigure42.014 Figure 8. Side and end views of steady-state equilibrated ice fronts inhibited by adsorbed sbwAFP.

If the induced curvature of the new ice fronts is less than the critical radius (R ) of an ice embryo at a given temperature then the ice remains in equilibrium with the melt.

"Our conclusion is that these bears got stuck south of the ice front," he said.

Larsen Ice Shelf, ice shelf in the northwestern Weddell Sea, adjoining the east coast of the Antarctic Peninsula and named for Captain Carl A. Larsen, who sailed along the ice front in 1893.

In addition, on a number of occasions, iceberg calving has been observed immediately after the collision of another iceberg with the ice front.

Some varved sediments in the glacigenic environment can display an exponential decrease in thickness of the couplet away from the ice front.

While the ice front of the glaciers was blocking the St . Lawrenceoutlet, the early lakes drained southward into the Mississippi-Ohio, the Susquehanna, and the Mohawk-Hudson systems.