Sentence examples for massive amount of ice from inspiring English sources

Now the fear is that it could happen in the East Antarctic, too, where there is a massive amount of ice to potentially lose.

Massive amounts of ice melted and flash floods followed.

When glaciers grow and advance, their abrasive power — the weight of massive amounts of ice mixed with rock debris — carves valleys in the landscape.

Zhiwu has the movie's funniest bit, in which he takes over an ice cream parlor and intimidates his diet-conscious friends and family members into consuming massive amounts of ice cream.

And it turns out that like West Antarctica, East Antarctica features several regions — including Totten — where massive amounts of ice rise above the ocean level, but are grounded deep below it.

Using the European Space Agency's CryoSat 2 satellite, the Alfred Wegener Institute from Germany has found that western Antarctica and Greenland are losing massive amounts of ice.

The "short of the long of it" is that, due to its particular ocean-floor topography, and the warming ocean waters eating away at its "anchor point", a massive amount of glacial ice -- enough for about 15 feet of sea level rise -- is going to flow into the ocean like wine flowing out of a suddenly uncorked bottle.

Unfortunately, with massive amounts of gifting in the U.S. comes massive amounts of trash.

"Whatever it was, something happened which mobilised this massive amount of very old thick ice, and then basically caught us and then built up progressively over the next 40 hours".

If Mt. Rainier were to erupt as powerfully as Mount St. Helens did in its May 18 , 1980 eruption, the effect would be cumulatively greater, because of the far more massive amounts of glacial ice locked on the volcano compared to Mount St. Helens and the vastly more heavily populated areas surrounding Rainier.

You likely remember the wildly successful ALS ice bucket challenge which attracted a massive amount of PR and led to breakthroughs in research.