Sentence examples for surging glaciers from inspiring English sources

These unusual glaciers are called surging glaciers.

Tidewater glaciers share another characteristic with surging glaciers in that they may advance and retreat periodically, independent of climatic variation.

Although surging glaciers are not rare in some areas (e.g., Alaska Range and St . Elias Mountains, they are totally absent in other areas of similar topography, bedrock, climate, and so forth (e.g., western Chugach Mountains and Coast Mountains).

"Surging" glaciers in the Karakoram may actually be losing mass.

Contemporary understanding of the behaviour of surging glaciers and ice streams is hampered by the lack of data on landsystem evolution and sedimentary environments.

Well documented in Alaska are surging glaciers that have been known to rapidly advance, even as much as 100 m per day.

Recently, he has been using a surging glacier near Yakutat as a laboratory for the study of how rocks move, since ice deforms in much the way that rock does.

But as we got closer, forging glacial streams over planks of wood and walking over the huge moraines, rock piles strewn about by surging glaciers centuries ago, Mount Fitz Roy and Cerro Torre became more imposing, even forbidding.

Population surges, melting glaciers, aging infrastructures, rainfall changes, pollution, and waterfront overdevelopment are just a few causes of water shortage.

The fastest glaciers (other than those in the act of surging) are thick, temperate glaciers in which high subglacial water pressures produce high rates of sliding.

The ice-marginal zone of Skeiðarársandur, SE Iceland was selected as a case study of a temperate, actively-receding glacier landsystem that is affected by both surging behaviour and periodic glacier outburst floods (jökulhlaups).