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Meaning of "ice shelves"
ice shelves: This phrase refers to a thick floating platform of ice that forms where a glacier or ice sheet flows down to a coastline and extends onto the ocean
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Calving of ice shelves is usually preceded by a rift.
Describe the changes in the ice shelves.
Ice shelves are also sensitive to basal melting.
Warming waters are undercutting these ice shelves.
Ice shelves are extensions of glaciers and function as barriers.
Benthic areas under ice shelves.
These ice shelves appear to be extremely sensitive to climate change.
Next to the continental shore are many ice shelves.
Ice sheets are bigger than ice shelves or alpine glaciers.
Antarctica is defined as all land and ice shelves.
Ice shelves are extensions.
The scientists who study these ice shelves.
Ice shelves are permanent floating sheets of ice that are connected to a piece of land.
Warmer water is speeding up the retreat of the ice shelves.
Other ice shelves only edge over the water for a kilometer or two.
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Such intrusions have been linked to the melting of ice shelves.
Losing icebergs is a way in which these ice shelves maintain their equilibrium.
Increase the production of meltwater that forms on the top of ice shelves.
Many other islands and floating ice shelves lie off the coast.
Icebergs are born when they calve off of glaciers or break off of ice shelves.
Other prominent ice shelves in the region also have been affected over the years.
The ponds are also found on glacial ice and ice shelves.
The ice shelves of the world may be destabilized by forces from above and below.
This ice mass is one of four remaining ice shelves on the island.
These areas may just be ice shelves that cast shadows in ways that look interesting.
However few direct impacts result from the loss of these ice shelves.
The problem comes when the ice shelves lose more mass than the glaciers are gaining.
Antarctica has seen many new icebergs and collapsed ice shelves in recent years.
Dozens of Antarctic ice shelves collapsing faster than anyone predicted.
But there are still plenty of unknowns about how ice shelves and icebergs work.
The floating ice shelves that surround Antarctica are also disintegrating.
A more detailed examination found a chain of events that explained the shrinking ice shelves.
Shrinking of Antarctic ice shelves is accelerating.
O The biodiversity associated with canyons and ice shelves.
Ice shelves in Canada have halved in the last six years.
This is a list of Antarctic ice shelves.
If you see the breakup of ice shelves along the Antarctic peninsula.
Ice shelves are the gatekeepers for glaciers flowing from Antarctica toward the ocean.
Ice rises are found only on the ice shelves of Antarctica.
Spatial variations of PRC have been used to infer a composite structure for the ice shelves.
Her research focuses on ice shelves in Antarctica and their responses to climate change.
Dozens of Antarctic ice shelves.
The ice shelves in West Antarctica are breaking up.
Three large chunks of ice broke off ice shelves in the Arctic this summer.
Ice shelves along the Antarctic Peninsula also appear to be degrading rapidly.
The comprehensive survey also found that melting beneath ice shelves is quite uneven around Antarctica.
Ice shelves surrounding the continent hold back ice like the Hoover Dam.
But the glaciers onthe Antarctic Peninsula are melting andthe ice shelves are changing.
A list of Antarctic ice shelves can be found at List of Antarctic ice shelves.
Deglaciation of the Greenland and Antarctic ice shelves.
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