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Bookmark or Share- Forty percent of Antarctica’s ice shelves are shrinking, worrying ...5 min. More than 40 percent of Antarctica’s ice shelves have dwindled in the past 25 years, potentially accelerating sea level rise by allowing more land ice to flow into the ocean, according...
- Ice shelf - WikipediaAn ice shelf is a large platform of glacial ice floating on the ocean, fed by one or multiple tributary glaciers. Ice shelves form along coastlines where the ice thickness is insufficient to displace the more dense surrounding ocean water.
- Our Antarctica Maps Show the Larsen Ice Shelf's Stunning Decades-Long ...Ice shelves are thick floating platforms of ice that are connected to land masses, and they surround about 75 percent of Antarctica’s coastline. The Larsen Ice Shelf, named after Norwegian...
- What is an ice shelf? | UC DavisIce shelves are part of the ocean, so they don’t affect sea level rise in and of themselves. They are constantly moving from a solid to a liquid already. But ice shelves buttress all the glacial ice on land. Think of them like a wall blocking all the ice on land from flowing into the ocean.
- The Science of Ice Shelves | National Snow and Ice Data CenterIce shelves form in areas where cold ocean water lies next to a large continental glacier or ice sheet that reaches the sea. Under cooling or cold conditions, the ice that reaches the sea will flow out over the ocean, floating as a thick ice plate on top of it.
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