With additional time, pressure, and refrozen meltwater from above, the small firn granules become larger, interlocked crystals of blue glacial ice.
随着时间的推移，压力的增加，再加上从上方重新冻结的融水，小冰原颗粒成为相互锁结的大晶体蓝色冰川冰。
The oxygen isotope ratio of the ocean changes as a great deal of water is withdrawn from it by evaporation and is precipitated as snow to form glacial ice.
随着大量的水通过蒸发被抽离，并以雪的形式沉淀形成冰川冰，海洋中氧同位素的比率就发生了变化。
A surplus allows snow to accumulate and for the pressure of snow accumulated over the years to transform buried snow into glacial ice with a depth great enough for the ice to flow.
剩余的积雪能够让雪集成堆，且由于多年的积雪形成的压力，剩余的积雪能够让掩埋的雪变成冰川冰，这些冰川冰的厚度足以使冰块流动。
Recent expeditions have taken ice samples from green icebergs and ice cores—vertical, cylindrical ice samples reaching down to great depths—from the glacial ice shelves along the Antarctic continent.
近代的探险队已经从绿色冰山和冰核中带回了一些冰块样本，这些样本呈垂直的圆柱状，是沿着南极洲大陆的冰川冰架从极深的位置中取出的。
Interglacial periods are, typically periods of time between Ice Ages, when the climate warms, and the glacial ice retreats for a time, before things cool off again and another Ice Age begins.
间冰期通常是在冰期之间的一段时间，这时气候变暖，冰川的冰会暂时消退，直到气候再次变冷，下一个冰期开始。
但是我看到了冰河的冰。
"I don't know," Alice said. "But I can see glacial ice. It must near the top."
“我不知道，”爱丽丝答道。“但是我看到了冰河的冰。这说明我们接近山顶了。”
His eyes, razor sharp and as hard blue as glacial ice, tracked side to side over them all.
他的眼睛，锐利的剃刀和如如冰的冰难蓝色，追踪了边在他们之上偏袒全部。
Bacteria trapped in glacial ice for thousands of years could help humans live to 140, scientists claim.
科学家宣称，冰冻在数千年冰川中的细菌可能能够帮助人类活到140岁。
Along the southeastern coast of Greenland, an intricate network of fjords funnels glacial ice to the Atlantic Ocean.
在格陵兰岛东南部的海岸，由山沟组成的一个复杂的网络构成一个漏斗型的入海口，冰河中的冰从这里流入大西洋。
Firn: granular partially consolidated snow that has passed through one summer melt season but is not yet glacial ice.
粒雪，万年雪：经过一个夏季的溶化期但仍未成冰川的粒状且部分沉固的雪。
This means that holidays to Iceland will provide ample opportunity to witness the awe-inspiring size and power of glacial ice flows.
这意味着假期冰岛将提供充分的机会目睹了令人叹为观止的规模和势力的冰川冰流动。
Born as the roots of great volcanoes, over millions of years they have been deeply eroded by wind and water and rounded by the grinding weight of glacial ice.
这些山峰生为巨型火山的根基，千百万年来已被海风、海水以及冰川磨得棱角全无。
At 14 years old, Spencer Hardy has solved an avian mystery and discovered significant evidence for the only bird other than a penguin to incubate its eggs on glacial ice.
想想十四岁时，你干了什么？SpencerHardy呢，他发现了一个禽类之谜，并且找出了一个重要的证据来证明除了企鹅还有唯一一种在冰川的冰层上孵蛋的鸟。
The series of pictures tell a story not only about the dramatic reductions in glacial ice in the Himalayas, but also the effects of climate change on the people who live there.
这一系列照片，不仅反映了喜马拉雅山脉流动冰的急剧减少，也反映了气候变化给居住在那里的人们造成的影响。
The second eruption, however, melted a large amount of glacial ice which then cooled and fragmented lava into gritty glass particles that were carried up with the rising volcanic plume.
第二次喷发融化了大量的冰川冰，使岩浆冷却碎裂成砂质玻璃微粒，被上升的火山灰柱带走。
WASHINGTON: a chunk of Antarctic ice seven times the size of Manhattan Island has suddenly collapsed, putting an even greater portion of glacial ice at risk, according to scientists.
华盛顿：科学家声称，一块面积约是曼哈顿岛7倍大小的南极冰川突然崩塌，并将致使其他更为巨大的冰川处于危险状态。
The combination of a huge ice-sheet and the dramatic sounds of a fast-moving glacial ice-stream calving into a fjord covered by icebergs makes for a dramatic and awe-inspiring natural phenomenon.
巨大的冰盖，加上冰流迅速移动，在冰山覆盖的峡湾内崩裂发出的巨响，形成了令人敬畏的自然现象。
Recent expeditions have taken ice samples from green icebergs and ice cores-vertical, cylindrical ice samples reaching down to great depths-from the glacial ice shelves along the Antarctic continent.
进来的探险队从南极洲的冰架上带回了一些绿色冰山和冰核的样本——到达深度的垂直圆柱型的冰的样本。
As geologists mapped glacial deposits in the late nineteenth century, they became aware that there were several layers of drift, the lower ones corresponding to earlier ice ages.
19世纪晚期，在地质学家对这些冰川沉积进行定位的时候，他们意识到有好几个漂流层，位置较低的对应的是更早的冰川期。
At the end of the glacier's deeply crevassed snout sits a glacial lake, coated with ice in this wintertime picture.
在冰川深裂缝末端，最后形成了一个冰川湖，在这张图片上，湖泊被冬天洁的冰盖住了。
During glacial ages that exist about 90% of the time, our Northern Hemisphere is mostly covered with ice up to several miles thick.
这一周期约90%的时间为冰川时代，在那期间，我们北半球大部分覆盖着厚达数英里的冰层。
Regine Hock, a glacial geophysicist at the University of Alaska Fairbanks, told the National Geographic that the breakup of ice shelves is "a normal process that happens all the time".
RegineHock，一个阿拉斯加费尔班克斯分校冰川地质学家，告诉国家地理杂志冰架的崩落是“一个随时都在发生的普通现象”。
The strait’s status in turn affected ocean currents, which affected the rate of ice sheet melting during the last glacial period.
在上次冰河时代，白令海峡这种周期性的开闭，影响了洋流，进而影响冰盖融化的速度。
During glacial periods, the forams' shells contain more of the heavier of two oxygen isotopes, as the lighter one is preferentially accumulated in snow and ice rather than the ocean.
冰河时期海洋中多空虫贝壳化石中积聚的较重的氧同位素比较多，而另一种轻的氧同位素则更多地积聚在古代冰层和积雪中。
One theory was the "glacial bear" hypothesis that Kermodism represented a remnant adaptation from the last great ice age, which ended here 11, 000 years ago.
一种理论是“冰川熊”假说。 卡莫德现象反映了从11000年前结束的这个地区冰河时期残留下来的适应性改变。
The glacial epochs are characterized by great mountain glaciers, ice caps, piedmont glaciers and medium- to small-scale valley glaciers.
各次冰期的冰川性质分别为大型山岳冰川、冰帽、山麓冰川和中小型山谷冰川。
Covered with ice or affected by glacial action.
覆盖着冰或者受冰川作用的影响。
The usual metaphor for this is "glacial", which is apt since the retreat of the glaciers (and polar ice caps) tells us the primary datum of the decade has been physical degradation of the planet.
它常被比喻为“冰川的”，这个词恰如其分，因为冰川(以及极地冰帽)的消退告诉我们，这个十年的首要情况，正是地球的自然界的退化。
Permafrost is underground soils containing ice which keep frozen for several years, it is remains of ancient glacial climate.
多年冻土是埋藏于地表下多年不融化的含冰土层，是古代冰川气候的残留物。
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