Sentence examples for melted glacial from inspiring English sources

But now a large lake of melted glacial water has formed above the gorge.

The rising temperatures will cause the oceans to swell with melted glacial ice, the study finds, likely flooding substantial portions of Florida and Bangladesh, as well as many other low-lying, densely populated areas of the world.

The first explosive phase, 14 18 April, was the most vigorous and is characterized by phreatomagmatic activity as the erupted material melted glacial ice on the summit (Gudmundsson et al. 2012).

And where does this rise in sea level supposedly come from – melting glacial ice?

Benjamin I. Goldhagen thought that raising investment money for his start-up in New York would be easier than the marathon he ran over melting glacial ice in Antarctica.

"When you melt glacial ice, several hundred metres to a kilometre thick... you've decreased the load on the crust and so you've decreased the pressure holding the volcanic conduits closed.

At the end of the last ice age approximately 10,000 years ago, massive floods from the melting glacial ice carved deep canyons into the underlying plateau-capping lava flows.

They found that the amount of DDT and its metabolites released by melting glacial ice increased the concentrations in lake mussels and fish above the threshold considered safe for human consumption.

In 1958, Canadian volcanologist Bill Mathews suggested that the lava flows were erupted during periods of subglacial activity and traveled through trenches or tunnels melted in glacial ice of the Fraser Glaciation.

As the habitat changed that is, as the glacial ice melted and the glacial front retreated the vegetation migrated onto the new landscape: first the pioneer species of the tundra a few hardy low-growing or crustose lichens and mosses of small stature followed by dwarfed willows and birch and, ultimately, the full panoply of tundra plants.

Such warming could cause accelerated melting of glacial ice and a consequent increase in the sea level of several feet over the next century...