Polar-ice Sentence Examples

He proved conclusively that any southern continent that might exist lay under the polar ice.

The most plausible explanation is that, like the discrepancy in the secular acceleration, the observed deviation is only apparent, and arises from slow fluctuations in the earth's rotation, and therefore in our measure of time produced by the motion of great masses of polar ice and the variability of the amount of snowfall on the great continents.

What we are talking about here are not the polar ice caps or large ice fields.

This would eventually cause the polar ice caps to melt, and thus generate an environment in which biological life could be sustained.

A central feature of their work will be the use of satellites to determine changes in the polar ice fields.

Recent discoveries show a major hidden source of water comes from polar ice sheets.

Of the planet's water, 97.5 percent of it is salt water and of the 2.5 percent that is fresh, 2 percent of that is frozen in the polar ice caps.

Melting Glaciers - As the planet gets warmer, the glaciers that form the polar ice caps begin to melt.

Some scientists believe that if the current rate of retreat continues, the polar ice caps will be gone by the year 2040.

Additionally, rising temperatures melt glaciers, polar ice sheets, and sea ice, sending more and more water into the sea.

Some, like the melting polar ice caps are obvious, while others are still unknown.

With the melting of the polar ice caps, the sea levels have begun to rise.

The West Coast of America will be destroyed by a series of earthquakes, volcanic eruptions, and the rising of the ocean due to polar ice caps melting.

The ozone layer has been torn apart & the polar ice caps are melting.