Sentence examples for wedge ice from inspiring English sources

3. Foliated ground ice, or wedge ice, is the term for large masses of ice growing in thermal contraction cracks in permafrost.

The forms of ground ice can be grouped into five main types: (1) pore ice, (2) segregated, or Taber, ice, (3) foliated, or wedge, ice, (4) pingo ice, and (5) buried ice. 1. Pore ice, which fills or partially fills pore spaces in the ground, is formed by pore water freezing in situ with no addition of water.

To show OC density separate from wedge ice for comparability with previous studies, the Yedoma deposit frozen OC pool contain 19 + 13/−11 kg/m and thermokarst deposits 33 + 25/−19 kg/m when excluding the WIV.

In the vast northern permafrost Yedoma region that remained unglaciated during the last ice age, alluvial floodplains, hill slopes, and polygonal lowlands [ Strauss et al., 2012] accumulated OC in Yedoma deposits ≤50 m thick [ Kanevskiy et al., 2011], while segregated ice (SEI) and massive wedge ice (WI) concurrently formed within the sediments).

The isotopic composition (δ18O, δD) of Buchchagy ice-wedge ice indicates winter conditions colder than during the MIS3 interstadial and warmer than during MIS2 stadial, and similar atmospheric winter moisture sources as during the MIS2 stadial.

[7] Wedge-Ice Volume (WIV) was calculated using equations (S4) and (S5) (SI, section S1.4.1).

A strudel "reinterpretation" offered a pastry wedge with icing sugar, that surmounted some delicious cinnamon ice cream and lumps of apple that had become overcaramelised.

A wedge of ice-cold, scarlet watermelon eaten in the garden and the honeyed fuzz of a warm apricot in late summer.

A group of scientists recently reported that far Arctic landscapes, filled with thick wedges of ice embedded in the frozen ground, also are thawing faster than expected.

Last summer, my social media feed erupted with photos of my drinking friends' frosty copper mugs, brimming with lime wedges and ice cubes.

Potholes are caused, he said, when water gets into the pavement structure, freezes and expands, causing wedges of ice to push up the pavement and pop it out.