Sentence examples for layers of ice from inspiring English sources

Kingslake was looking for "ice lenses" — layers of ice that are formed by melted spring snow that refreezes.

In at least one case, the mystery is unfolding in chapters, as layers of ice slowly reveal an old tragedy.

Dye 3 was so close to the coast that the oldest layers of ice had mostly flowed out to sea.

Though the storm had ended by Monday, roads were still slick with layers of ice hidden beneath snow; on Monday morning in the Minneapolis-St.

The first pictures appeared to show that some of the ice lies in chunks on a surface that may be underlain with deeper layers of ice.

So beautiful are the sound and the texture of his playing that they tend to form thin layers of ice over the sincerest of feelings.

Subsurface layers of ice seem to be ubiquitous on Mars at latitudes poleward of 40°; the very low subsurface temperatures would prevent the ice from subliming.

As a place for life, Ganymede is less promising, because the ocean looks to be sandwiched between layers of ice and not in contact with rock.

One effect of this giant canyon system can be seen at the coast, where sea water can seep into cavities, potentially melting lower layers of ice.

Beneath the firn the upper layers of ice in the core correspond to a single year or sometimes a single season.

These predictions are, by definition, uncertain -- extrapolated from climate patterns in the distant past, discerned from studying ancient layers of ice.