Sentence examples for thick glacier from inspiring English sources

"An eruption beneath a thick glacier often leads to a hazardous glacial flood that can begin within minutes to several hours after the eruption has started," Dr. Roberts said.

The ice that covers Lake Vostok is actually a thick glacier, which moves across the lake over a period of about 10,000 years.

Palmer Land is mountainous, attaining elevations varying between 6,600 and 13,800 feet (2,000 and 4,200 m), and covered by thick glaciers except for its most precipitous peaks and cliffs, some of which form stretches of the coastline along the Weddell Sea.

The West Antarctic Ice Sheet is a mass of thick glaciers spanning nearly a million square kilometers.

New climate simulations help explain how Pluto's heart-shaped Sputnik Planum (lower right) got its thick glaciers of nitrogen and carbon monoxide.

It is difficult to obtain fossil data from the 10% of Earth's terrestrial surface that is covered by thick glaciers and ice sheets, and hence, knowledge of the paleoenvironments of these regions has remained limited.

Debate has centered on two mechanisms: bottom-up, in which icy materials would burble up through Pluto's crust and out onto its surface, driven by residual heat in the dwarf planet's interior; and top-down, in which frosts from Pluto's atmosphere eventually accumulate into thick glaciers.

Throughout the ice age, the North Cascades were mostly covered in thick glaciers, extending to near Puget Sound.

He and his students built a radio antenna 13 miles long atop a mile-thick glacier at Siple Station in West Antarctica and continued to use it until the station closed in 1988.

Bardarbunga and Dyngjujokull are part of a large volcano system hidden beneath the 500-metre (0.31-mile) thick Vatnajokull glacier in central Iceland.

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.