Sentence examples for underside of the ice from inspiring English sources

The underside of the ice sheet and the ice shelves are vulnerable spots, and that's what our project is addressing.

Warm currents come from deep water and heat the underside of the ice sheet, causing it to melt.

Melting of the underside of the ice has caused flooding, forcing evacuations and destroying bridges and roads.

Then we're going to put in a new video camera system to look at the underside of the ice shelf, and to look at the water right there.

What Lies Beneath Arctic Ice? On Thursday we lowered a camera into an ice borehole to get a look at the underside of the ice.

"It's kind of a blowtorch on the underside of the ice shelf," said Robert A. Bindschadler, a retired NASA climate scientist.

And a serious accident, such as a blowout under sea ice, could be disastrous.Ice-and-oil sandwiches, anyone Controlled oil spills in ice in and off Norway suggest that the oil would coat the pitted underside of the sea ice and more ice would form under it, making an ice-and-oil sandwich.

But warming ocean waters have been eating away at the underside of these ice shelves, thinning them in many places and reducing their ability to buttress the ice.

As warming ocean waters lick away at the underside of the floating ice shelves, a runaway effect lifts more and more ice up and off the bedrock to where it can be melted from underneath.

One is ice algae, which grow within and on the underside of the sea ice from early March.

However, glaciers during the Pleistocene blanketed most of the landscape with till (boulder clay), scraped up and carried along by the underside of the great ice sheets, so that few soils can now be directly related to their parent rock.