ice shelf

noun

: shelf ice

In 2002, a Rhode Island-size section of an ice shelf crumbled into the sea.—

Joe McGowan

Examples of ice shelf in a Sentence

Recent Examples on the Web The Digital Twin Antarctica focuses on ice shelf dynamics and meltwater tracking. —

Shelli Brunswick, Forbes, 13 Sep. 2024 Scientists are particularly keen to understand what’s happening to Antarctica’s ice shelves, huge slabs of floating ice which jut out into the ocean and are an important defense against sea level rise, acting as a cork to hold back glaciers on land. —

Laura Paddison, CNN, 3 Sep. 2024 That change in the winds pushes cold surface waters away from the continent, allowing warmer, deeper water to be pulled under the glaciers’ ice shelves. —

Bychristian Elliott, science.org, 18 Apr. 2024 The ice shelf acts as a dam, slowing its parent glacier's flow into the ocean. —

Douglas Fox, Scientific American, 1 Nov. 2022 See all Example Sentences for ice shelf

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