ice shelf
noun
: shelf ice
In 2002, a Rhode Island-size section of an ice shelf crumbled into the sea.—
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Racing to the scene, Connolly found a child almost fully submerged and hanging onto an ice shelf as friends struggled to pull them ashore, the fire department wrote on Facebook.
—Jessica Schladebeck, New York Daily News, 25 Jan. 2025
Bizarre blue streaks dotted across an ice shelf in Antarctica have been spotted by NASA.
—Kristen Waggoner, Newsweek, 21 Jan. 2025
The ice shelf is not just separating from its pinning point.
—Douglas Fox, Scientific American, 1 Nov. 2022
Though the frozen continent is warming — on average slightly faster than the rest of the planet — Antarctica’s glaciers and ice shelves have been largely stable.
—Avery Hurt, Discover Magazine, 30 Dec. 2024
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Jessica Schladebeck, New York Daily News, 25 Jan. 2025
Bizarre blue streaks dotted across an ice shelf in Antarctica have been spotted by NASA.
—Kristen Waggoner, Newsweek, 21 Jan. 2025
The ice shelf is not just separating from its pinning point.
—Douglas Fox, Scientific American, 1 Nov. 2022
Though the frozen continent is warming — on average slightly faster than the rest of the planet — Antarctica’s glaciers and ice shelves have been largely stable.
—Avery Hurt, Discover Magazine, 30 Dec. 2024
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“Ice shelf.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/ice%20shelf. Accessed 6 Feb. 2025.
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