Sentence examples for melting sheet from inspiring English sources

One summer, George came out to Cooper Island and, lacking landmarks of any kind, mistakenly set up his camp on the snow-covered lagoon -- and spent five days waiting for land to appear beneath him before he realized his terra was no more firma than a slowly melting sheet of ice.

When it comes to climate change iconography, there's perhaps no image more recognizable than that of a lone polar bear marooned on a melting sheet of ice.

According to the National Snow and Ice Data Center, the melting sheet contains enough ice to raise global sea levels by 20 feet.

After a 14-hour day of scouting and chasing the tide around in search for that the perfect icy canvas, Hula and his team find their melting sheet and camp out on the ice.

The charcuterie plate offers slices of the small and peppery salami known as cacciatore and some melting sheets of Bayonne ham (air-dried in France, not New Jersey).

Using information from land boreholes, we assumed the presence in the model of a thin breccias layer (suevites) at the impact center and also an impact melt sheet (Rebolledo-Vieyra et al., 2000).

We assume that future sample return missions will focus on recovery of igneous crystalline material or crystalline melt sheet material, untainted by regolith processing.

The melting ice sheet is a significant factor in sea level rise.

Mr Broecker speculated that fresh water from a melting ice sheet could form a "cap" that stops the current sinking.

The sediment outflow from the melting Laurentide sheet covered the blocks of ice, so they lay hidden and insulated for 1,000 years or more beneath the soil.

(The platform "will provide a front-row seat for the melting ice sheet," the head of the philanthropy said in June, when the winning design was announced).