Sentence examples for rivers of ice from inspiring English sources

Glaciers are forceful, slow-flowing rivers of ice.

Glaciers may seem static, but they are actually more like slowly moving rivers of ice.

Glaciers are, simply, rivers of ice formed from snow in regions that are frozen year-round.

In frigid regions, ice shelves form as the long rivers of ice called glaciers flow from land into the sea.

In Greenland, meltwater is seeping through crevasses, lubricating the ice sheet's base, accelerating "rivers of ice" and increasing the potential for a portion to slip.

Today, satellites show huge glaciers moving rapidly toward the coast, with these wide rivers of ice sometimes moving several miles a year.

Donning crampons, we stepped out onto the gritty exterior of the 10-mile river of ice.

They show the great river of ice has dwindled dramatically over the past 30 years.

This is a river of ice 36 miles long and two miles across at points.

We passed over Ruth Glacier, a narrow, winding river of ice carved with deeply grooved channels.

Thus, the erosion rate of a glacier is greatest where the flowing river of ice descends steeply downstream.