In each place, the removal or weakening of fringing shelves of ice attached to the shore or seabed in front of the glaciers appears to have liberated the great inland ice sheets.
22.
During the second expedition in 1893 1894, Astrup became ill and did not participate in Peary's journey across the inland ice, which otherwise was a failure because of illness, frostbite and bad weather.
23.
There is a narrow belt of ice-free land between the shore and the Inland ice cap, interrupted by active glaciers reaching the shore with the ice limit varying seasonally from year to year.
24.
Similar shifts have been measured in some glaciers in Greenland, with erosion of " tongues " of ice protruding into the sea causing inland ice sheets to flow more quickly to the sea.
25.
The "'central Swedish ice-edge zone "'was formed when the melting of inland ice slowed down during a cold period approximately 12, 000 years ago and the ice edge stood relatively still for around 800 years.
26.
From the delta-profile, the Renland ice cap in the Scoresbysund Fiord has always been separated from the inland ice, yet all the delta-leaps revealed in the Camp Century 1963 core recurred in the Renland ice core.
27.
This comparatively insignificant warming, when combined with the lowering of the Nordic inland ice areas and Tibet due to the weight of the superimposed ice-load, has led to the repeated complete thawing of the inland ice areas.
28.
From the delta-profile, the Renland ice cap in the Scoresbysund Fiord has always been separated from the inland ice, yet all the delta-leaps revealed in the Camp Century 1963 core recurred in the Renland 1985 ice core.
29.
He earned his pilot license in 1974, doing several long distance trips with one engine planes-including a flight over the inland ice of Greenland in 1979 and a solo flight from Germany to Quito, Ecuador in 1981.
30.
This comparatively insignificant warming, when combined with the lowering of the Nordic inland ice areas and Tibet due to the weight of the superimposed ice-load, has led to the repeated complete thawing of the inland ice areas.
