How to Use subglacial in a Sentence

subglacial

adjective

• The study says the subglacial lake on Mars is cold indeed, and rather salty.
  — Jay Bennett, Popular Mechanics, 25 July 2018
• And the data hinted at the presence of a subglacial lake.
  — Julissa Treviño, Smithsonian, 16 Apr. 2018
• The cracks had formed as the ice skidded and juddered over a subglacial mountain.
  — National Geographic, 13 June 2018
• The team now plans to look at how active subglacial lakes influence the flow of ice in the upper layers of the ice sheet.
  — Jason Daley, Smithsonian, 27 June 2019
• What do the subglacial lakes mean for the future of the Greenland Ice Sheet given the looming threat of climate change?
  — NBC News, 29 June 2019
• The salt from rocks beneath the ice made the subglacial lakes four to five times saltier than seawater, or hypersaline.
  — Julissa Treviño, Smithsonian, 16 Apr. 2018
• These eyes in the sky also look for ponds of surface meltwater, conduits that carry seasonal drainage and subglacial lakes.
  — Ashley Strickland, CNN, 19 Apr. 2022
• Olivas points out that microbes could be living throughout the large subglacial lake because of the high levels of life-sustaining compounds.
  — David Kindy, Smithsonian Magazine, 23 July 2021
• That’s not too salty to host microbial life, as a similarly briny subglacial lake in Antarctica proves.
  — Sid Perkins, Science | AAAS, 11 Apr. 2018
• In that scenario, crevasses would open up in the glacial ice during the summer, allowing water to pour down to the bedrock, supercharging the subglacial hydrology.
  — WIRED, 8 Nov. 2022
• The temperature of this water would probably have remained just above freezing, the researchers theorize, a bit like the Antarctic subglacial lakes on Earth that are covered in ice year-round.
  — Popular Science, 29 June 2020
• Access by skidoo is also possible, but subglacial floes makes it a more treacherous affair.
  — Brandon Presser, Bloomberg.com, 19 July 2017
• The core was subglacial sediment and rock, taken from below a mile of ice in 1966 at Camp Century, an American research base in Greenland that had served as cover for a secret—and failed—military project.
  — Star Tribune, 21 Mar. 2021
• In Iceland, after the subglacial volcano Katla has been erupting constantly for a whole year, Gríma is still looking for her missing sister who disappeared the day the eruption started.
  — Jacob Siegal, BGR, 13 June 2021
• So far Fagradalsfjall’s eruption has not caused the kind of global disruption to air travel seen in 2010, when the subglacial volcano Eyjafjallajökull spewed volcanic ash into the high atmosphere.
  — Robinson Meyer, The Atlantic, 23 Mar. 2021
• Scientists first unearthed evidence of these subglacial reservoirs in 2018.
  — Jennifer Leman, Popular Mechanics, 30 Sep. 2020
• Accordingly, the subglacial water must be at least negative 10 degrees Celsius.
  — Jay Bennett, Popular Mechanics, 25 July 2018
• Mikucki, Tulaczyk and Doran are using the Dreamcatcher and on-the-ground measurements of the chemical properties of subglacial water to gain knowledge about ice-sheet behavior and Antarctic habitats never before gleaned from the continent’s ice.
  — Daniela Hernandez, WSJ, 29 Dec. 2018
• There are also the many scientific breakthroughs made by women in the Antarctic, from discovering a series of active subglacial lakes to initiating the use of autonomous ocean gliders to take ocean measurements in tough-to-reach waters.
  — Laura Kiniry, Smithsonian Magazine, 25 Mar. 2022
• Earth's subglacial lakes are teeming with bacterial life, and similar life might survive in liquid reservoirs on Mars, scientists have speculated.
  — NBC News, 28 Sep. 2020
• Those differences allow the scientists to map subglacial topography.
  — Daniela Hernandez, WSJ, 29 Dec. 2018
• Getting a comparable subglacial sample today using modern drilling technology would have been prohibitively expensive.
  — Gemma Tarlach, Wired, 20 Mar. 2021

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