Sentence examples for stagnant ice from inspiring English sources

Others have a peculiar thumbprintlike texture, possibly indicative of the former presence of stagnant ice.

The seasonal decline in water table is greatest at the ice margin, reflecting the reduced winter recharge from the stagnant ice zone.

Finally, it is recognised that landscape development in areas of stagnant ice topography may post-date initial deglaciation by a considerable degree.

A thousand years later, only limited areas of stagnant ice remained in northern Sweden, leaving the freshwater Ancylus Lake stretching from Arctic Sweden and Finland to the present southern Baltic.

The distribution of glacigenic elements within the hummocky moraine landscape shows that active and stagnant ice coexisted on Høgjæren during the last deglaciation, and that actively flowing ice was focused through eastward extending valleys.

Consequently, the flat sediment floors of many valleys and lakes are now pitted by steep-sided, enclosed depressions (kettle basins) that record the melt of stagnant ice blocks and collapse of sediment.

He chose the Japanese company Hoshizaki, which, in the mid-eighties, had made a spirited, almost revolutionary, assault on the rather stagnant ice-machine market, rethinking and simplifying the usual technology to produce a cube that is widely thought to be a little clearer than others and less likely to be joined to its neighbors as it leaves the machine.

Based on detailed sedimentological and structural investigations of ribbed moraine ridges it is concluded that diamict sequences and associated sorted sediment were deposited due to passive melt-out from stagnant, debris-rich ice with synsedimentary deposition of sorted sediments, preferentially at a melting ice/bed interface.

Outside there is a flavor of rushes, ice, stagnant water.

Unless Americans so overcome their fear of fat that they start to indulge in flavours such as Chunky Monkey by the tubfull, Ben & Jerry's will find it hard to grow much faster than the stagnant American market for ice-cream.

The Kings often look stagnant at both ends of the ice and have made mediocre teams look like they have a powerhouse forecheck.