Sentence examples for under glaciers from inspiring English sources

Scientists believe that earthworms were once native to North America, but most died off when the northern half of the continent was buried under glaciers.

Even as much of Europe and North America lay buried under glaciers, the temperature in Greenland was oscillating wildly, sometimes in spikes of ten degrees, sometimes in spikes of twenty.

"Basically everything you see to the east of Reykjavik is a wall of mountains formed in eruptions under glaciers," said Magnus Tumi Gudmundsson, a professor of geophysics at the University of Iceland, who added, "Katla has been showing signs of unrest over the last few years".

But the Pascua-Lama case includes a few unique twists: perhaps 5% of the metals lie under glaciers, the site sits on land in two countries, and as gold and silver mines go, it is at a high altitude, a little over 15,000 feet above sea level.

Once on my head it's like going under glacier water, or skiing straight into snow.

This is the place where proposed pipelines, some already under construction, are slated to run through pristine valleys and under glacier-fed waterways.

From the air, scientists can monitor the ice surface to keep track of accumulating meltwater under the glaciers.

Northport's Main Street follows the course of what geologists call a glacial tunnel valley, a distinct, still discernible, steep-sided passageway through which melted ice from inside and under the glaciers drained outward from the glaciers' leading edge.

In particular, landmasses that were once buried under massive glaciers during the last ice age are slowly rising out of Earth's viscous mantle, a glacial rebound that biases instrumentation as much as 10 millimeters per year.

The Paleo-Indians moved into new territory as it emerged from under the glaciers.

As more land is exposed under melting glaciers, nations are competing for territory rather than heeding the warning it represents.