Sentence examples for plateau ice from inspiring English sources

The glacier is composed of high plateau ice and covers a series of mountain peaks, the highest of which is the Lodalskåpa, 6,834 feet (2,083 m).

Plateau ice was predominantly thin and protective, and snowblow and preferential accumulation in valley heads facilitated the modest glacial erosion and debris transport recorded in the landforms and sediments.

The South Pole Station is perched on the plateau of ice directly over the geographical pole.

Waking up in San Francisco and going to bed in Istanbul, they had been lost at sea, like the Marie Celeste — drifting as empty souls across the ice plateau.

In Antarctica, blizzards are associated with winds spilling over the edge of the ice plateau at an average velocity of 160 km (about 100 miles) per hour.

The point was later reached, on January 16 , 1909 at 72°25′ S, 155°16′ E, on the high ice plateau of Victoria Land by T.W.E.

These icebergs are generally larger than 5 km and are typically characterized as a rough ice plateau above the surrounding sea water or sea ice.

Unlike Byrd Glacier, with its straight path from the plateau to the ice shelf, Nimrod Glacier bends and twists through a curving course, in its central portion dropping more than 6,000 feet in a distance of 20 miles and producing some of the most savagely crevassed ice in the Transantarctic Mountains.

A glance at the austere plateau and the ice-fettered coast was evidence of a rigid, inhospitable climate.

Other cold spots are found over the Tibetan Plateau and Greenland ice-sheets.

In this paper, we take this stand and assume that there is no Pleistocene deglaciation in the Tibetan Plateau, and that current ice melting there is not included since the GIA responses just from Pleistocene ice-sheets are focused in this work.