Sentence examples for ice slab from inspiring English sources
The method is analyzed theoretically with respect to stability and applied to the simulation of a 2D ice slab and a 3D circular ice sheet.
The runners and Nordic skiers set off on the groomed track across an ice slab the size of Spain, soon becoming a trail of faint dark specks against a backdrop of white mountains.
"There's definitely a lot of melting going on," Dr. McConnell said, flinching as a crack echoed from the warming white cliff and a giant ice slab shifted ever so slightly.
Next to the hammam is an "ice cave," which contains a large ice block in the center, loose rock ice strewn throughout the cave and a large ice slab along one wall to cool off.
You will need to climb over a thick ice slab to climb on a vertical ladder with a 3,000 m (10,000 ft) drop.
On the river's surface, a vast field of broken ice, all white (ice slabs), dark brown (water), and light brown (ice slabs underwater), in a pattern of splendid randomness like winter camouflage, proceeded slowly oceanward.
Wind wrinkled the open water except in the immediate lee of the ice slabs, where the surface remained glassy smooth, with reflected clouds.
In the course of a few hours, we navigated hollow, rock-candy crusts hiding foot-deep air pockets, waist-high triangular ice slabs heaved up at 45-degree angles, pools of cerulean slush over cloudy ice shelves, and slick stretches of transparent ice.
Another occasional, unusual winter occurrence is the "ice bridge". It forms when parts of the Niagara River upstream freeze then thaw and break up into ice slabs, which are propelled downstream by heavy winds and then over the falls where they kerplunk at the bottom.
Giant ice slabs are pushed ashore near Great Lakes due to high winds: http://t.co/N6FZk2bQ8u #weather pic.twitter.com/nMTV9umfW3.
Gaseous carbon dioxide coming off of the ice slabs acts as a lubricant underneath the block and pushes material to the sides, McEwen said, giving the gouge high walls and making them appear even deeper.
