How to Use subglacial in a Sentence
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The study says the subglacial lake on Mars is cold indeed, and rather salty.
—Jay Bennett, Popular Mechanics, 25 July 2018
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And the data hinted at the presence of a subglacial lake.
—Julissa Treviño, Smithsonian, 16 Apr. 2018
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The cracks had formed as the ice skidded and juddered over a subglacial mountain.
—National Geographic, 13 June 2018
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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Access by skidoo is also possible, but subglacial floes makes it a more treacherous affair.
—Brandon Presser, Bloomberg.com, 19 July 2017
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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
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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
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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
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Scientists first unearthed evidence of these subglacial reservoirs in 2018.
—Jennifer Leman, Popular Mechanics, 30 Sep. 2020
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Accordingly, the subglacial water must be at least negative 10 degrees Celsius.
—Jay Bennett, Popular Mechanics, 25 July 2018
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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
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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
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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
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Those differences allow the scientists to map subglacial topography.
—Daniela Hernandez, WSJ, 29 Dec. 2018
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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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