Sentence examples for ice shield from inspiring English sources

Other models suggest that the ice shield could shrivel entirely in 1,000 years, a phenomenon that scientists theorize has not occurred for 440,000 years.

It's as though you were prevented from putting out a fire until it was raging: now the tundra is thawing and Greenland's ice shield is melting and nearly every natural system is disrupted, from the acidifying oceans to the erratic seasons to droughts, floods, heat waves, and wildfires, and the failure of crops.

At least 76 lakes have been trapped under Antarctica's ice shield for millions of years.

The ice shield of Antarctica, which measures several kilometers in thickness, presents a challenge when attempting to unravel the subglacial geology.

This paper presents a detailed analysis of high-resolution facies architecture of glaciolacustrine ice-margin deposits, which formed at the southern margin of the Scandinavian ice shield.

Using up-to-date techniques, such as ion beam analyses, this element could also help relative dating applications, ranging from burial durations of archaeological bones and teeth to the determination of exposure ages of meteorites on the Antarctic ice shield.

Followed by the other members of his team, the Falcons, he skated to one end of the ice, shielded from a lone spectator by a wall of Plexiglas.

The distribution of apparent 10Be ages peaks strongly in the Middle Devensian (36 50 ka), which with corrections for weathering and limited ice shielding could be interpreted as Early Devensian.

The ice that covers the polar seas is shrinking, while the ice shields that cover Antarctica and Greenland are melting.

Extreme cold stress can only be found some distance away from the coast over the ice shields of Antarctica almost every day (Fig. 5d).

High ploidy levels and sexuality have probably been the prerequisites for the evolutionary success of dogroses after the retreat of Pleistocenic ice shields, because dogroses are very widely spread in Central Europe and occur on a broad range of different habitats, whereas diploid and tetraploid species of other sections of Rosa are mainly found in glacial refugia [ 15].