Sentence examples for meltwater streams from inspiring English sources

It was intended to measure the flow of meltwater streams.

The first type of ice cave is formed by meltwater streams carving labyrinths in the bases of glaciers or by streams and wind hollowing out tunnels in snowfields.

Every spring or early summer, the surface of the Greenland ice sheet transforms from a vast white landscape of snow and ice to one bejeweled with blue meltwater streams, rivers and lakes.

Meltwater streams have dissected the subglacial deposits and provided excellent geological sections which have been intensively studied.

The abundance of maars dating to this time may be linked to large amounts of water associated with meltwater streams and permafrost.

During melting, the frost melts and the meltwater breaks up into small meltwater streams and droplets at the top of the structures or between the structures on the grooved surfaces.

A kame terrace is produced when a meltwater stream deposits its sediments between the ice mass and the valley wall.

Esker, also spelled eskar, or eschar, a long, narrow, winding ridge composed of stratified sand and gravel deposited by a subglacial or englacial meltwater stream.

A kame may be produced either as a delta of a meltwater stream or as an accumulation of debris let down onto the ground surface by the melting glacier.

The modern lake is a remnant of a much larger ice-dammed lake, which was reduced in size and then temporarily drained after diversion of the inflowing mountain meltwater stream, which had low δ18O values.

Climate change is likely to have a greater impact: shrunken glaciers will eventually mean less meltwater supplying surface streams and, in turn, increased demand for water from aquifers; meanwhile, rising sea levels can cause salt water to creep farther inland.