Sentence examples for section of glacier from inspiring English sources

These incidents typically occurred on the lower sections of climbing routes, which pass below slopes prone to avalanches and include the Khumbu Icefall, an unstable section of glacier.

In the 14-year period from 1984 to 1998, one section of the glacier atop the mountain receded 300 m.

The ice that came from the very highest section of the glaciers was the most prized.

Their arrival came almost 48 hours after a wall of snow and debris swept over the remote military base from where Pakistan guards its section of the desolate glacier against Indian forces.

"The fact that the retreat is happening simultaneously over a large sector suggests it was triggered by a common cause, such as an increase in the amount of ocean heat beneath the floating sections of the glaciers.

Section 4 illustrates the computation of glacier flow by correlation of SAR images.

In 1945, a year after the Allies stormed the beaches of Normandy, the ocean was busy establishing a beachhead of its own, burrowing beneath a fortified section of an important Antarctic glacier.

Because of the complexity of the climatic signal recorded by these proxies (see section 3) only long term variations of glacier curves are expected to match our reconstructions.

Another volunteer has been monitoring his glacier, a section of Vatnajökull, since 1948.

The most dramatic example of glacier retreat on the continent is the loss of large sections of the Larsen Ice Shelf on the Antarctic Peninsula.

In May 2014, Nasa and University of California, Irvine scientists revealed that glacier melt in a section of West Antarctica roughly the size of France now "appears unstoppable".