Sentence examples for small glacier from inspiring English sources

When she cracks and dissolves it's as if a small glacier has moved.

A small glacier on the other side was melting into the crater, and distant roaring sounds emanated from deep inside as steam rose into the blue sky.

The study area comprises a small glacier (400 1000 m a.s.l)., on the south side of Adventfjorden (78°11′N) that was polythermal during the LIA and turned into a passively down-wasting cold-based ice-mass prior to 1936.

Persistent ice retreat in Cascade Canyon was slowed by an interval of small glacier activity between ∼13.5 and 11.5 ka, prior to the end of glacial lacustrine sedimentation ∼11.5 ka.

It starts in the Arctic, but climate change impacts on the rest of the globe as well.' The centrepiece of the Tory visit will be a trip by dogsled to Scott Turnerbreen, a small glacier named after the chief executive of the American Coal Company, which operated in Longyearbyen in the Thirties.

Then in the space of two minutes he had maneuvered himself, wineglass in hand, to within two feet of Nan Kempner, the socialite, who was sporting a small glacier on her right hand that seemed to have the same effect on him as a tall glass of Scotch might on a recovering alcoholic.

"They're small glaciers," she says, "but they're changing fast". In Rignot's paper, Denman Glacier is reported to have sped up 16percentt since the 1970s.

Finally our results suggest that these isolated, small glacier-fed streams typical of the Patagonian landscape appear highly vulnerable to global warming.

"I'm the cliché country boy in the big city," said Mr. Hart, who lived just down the street from the MacDowell Colony, the century-old writers' retreat, and once described his favorite place in the world as "a small glacier-fed lake in New Hampshire during summertime, at dusk".

But by harnessing the small glacier-meltwater rivers that drop steeply off the soaring mountains, one Pakistani non-profit group is said to be laying the foundations for future peace and prosperity – and bringing hope to some of South Asia's most marginalised and isolated people.

Small glaciers are commonplace in the range today.