Sentence examples for portion of the ice from inspiring English sources

However, France's Marina Anissina and Gwendal Peizerat were on the verge of ending the Russian rule by taking the original portion of the ice dancing.

Still, both of last year's papers concluded that the melt of a major portion of the ice sheet, while perhaps already irreversible, would likely take centuries to play out.

The original portion of the ice dancing ended last night at the Salt Lake Ice Center with Marina Anissina and Gwendal Peizerat of France the winners in the compulsories with their flamenco-flavored program.

Researchers at Carleton University in Ottawa, who regularly analyze satellite images from the region, also found that a major portion of the ice shelves split in half this summer and other pieces covering an area roughly one and a half times that of Manhattan have broken off since the end of July.

The results of this research only address a small portion of the ice field.

The Lambert Amery System is the largest glacier ice shelf system in East Antarctica, draining a significant portion of the ice sheet.

Air bubbler systems and flow developers (submerged motor-driven propellers) are used to melt small portions of the ice cover by taking advantage of any thermal reserve, relative to the freezing point, that may exist in the water.

Deep ocean water, which is relatively warm, has been melting portions of the ice sheet at its base.

Meltwaters played a key role in lubricating ice sheet motion (and thus areal abrasion) across the inner portions of the ice sheet where it slid over rigid crystalline bedrock of the Canadian Shield.

He theorized that the tremendous pressure exerted by the cumulative mass of thousands of vertical meters of ice could increase the temperature at the lowest portions of the ice sheet to the point where the ice would melt.

That said, the 2007 IPCC projections for sea level rise might be too conservative, given the rapid melting of portions of the ice sheets of Greenland and Antarctica.