Glacial in a sentence

Glacial deposits are of two distinct types: * Glacial till: material directly deposited from glacial ice.

Glacial till with tufts of grass Till after avalanche, Norway Till or glacial till is unsorted glacial sediment.

Red: maximum limit of Weichselian glacial; yellow: Saale glacial at maximum (Drenthe stage); blue: Elster glacial maximum glaciation.

The study further stated that populations in High Mountains Asia (HMA) are the most exposed and on average live closest to glacial lakes, with 1 million people living within 10 km of a glacial lake.

With more frequent and severe weather events like record-breaking floods, heavy monsoon rains, devastating heat waves, rapid glacial melting, and glacial lake outburst floods, Pakistan is one of the top 10 most climate-vulnerable nations.

Glacial Lakes Energy was formed in 2001 as a subsidiary of Glacial Lakes Corn Processors, a cooperative of about 4,000 members and the co-op decided to keep grinding corn.

When researchers in Austria and Germany modeled the impact of climate change mitigation efforts of glacial melting rates around the world, they found policy changes and emissions reductions are likely to have a limited influence on glacial mass loss.

Evidence of past glaciers are visible throughout the park in the form of glacial erratics (large boulders dropped by the receding glacier) and north-south glacial striations visible on stone outcroppings.

If we postulate that coral reefs were eroded down to the glacial sea level, then coral reefs have grown 120m upward since the end of the recent glacial.

Its 25-ton capstone was most likely a glacial erratic (a piece of rock/conglomerate carried by glacial ice some distance from the rock outcrop from which it came): the builders dug under it and supported it with upright stones to create a burial chamber.

Kuhle, M. (2011): The High-Glacial (Last Glacial Maximum) Glacier Cover of the Aconcagua Group and Adjacent Massifs in the Mendoza Andes (South America) with a Closer Look at Further Empirical Evidence.

Patterns of glacial erratics hint at past glacial motions.

The glacial retreat induced by this or any other process can be amplified by similar inverse positive feedbacks as for glacial advances.

The sheer weight of glacial-age ice depressed the landforms, which experienced post-glacial rebound after the ice sheets had retreated.

This area is known as the Driftless Zone for its absence of glacial drift. citation Much of the remainder of the state outside the northeast has 50 feet (15 m) or more of glacial till left behind as the last glaciers retreated.

Typical Puget Sound profiles of dense glacial till overlying permeable glacial outwash of gravels above an impermeable bed of silty clay may become unstable after periods of unusually wet weather and slump in landslides.

A couple of youngsters with magic sand (locally sourced black magnetite), magnets, small steel objects, and a carved/polished bowl fashioned out of a 50-pound, half-a-billion-year-old magnetic glacial erratic Cumberlandite stone found up-Island.

A dried-up glacial lake near Gaumukh.

Archbishop of Canterbury Justin Welby conceded that progress on the issue of same-sex marriage in the Church of England would be “glacial”, Sandi Toksvig has said.

Establish glacial ice directions using available historical data, field data, and high-resolution air photo or satellite photo observations.