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ice shelf
noun
- an ice sheet projecting into coastal waters so that the end floats.
ice shelf
noun
- a thick mass of ice that is permanently attached to the land but projects into and floats on the sea
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Word History and Origins
Origin of ice shelf1
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Example Sentences
These new insights, however, show that the warming Southern Ocean is melting the ice from below, forming large cracks across the floating ice shelf.
Since about 2004, the eastern third of Thwaites has been braced by a floating ice shelf, an extension of the glacier that juts out into the sea.
Most likely, the weight of all that water fractured the ice shelf below.
Icy lakes and dolines occur regularly on this ice shelf, Fricker says.
Meanwhile, a roughly Manhattan-sized chunk of Canada’s Milne ice shelf — close to half of what had been the country’s last intact ice shelf — suddenly collapsed into the Arctic Ocean in August, carrying an ice-observing station away with it.
We had traveled five miles on the ice shelf above the foaming sea.
To raise the packages from the floe to the top of the ice-shelf, a "flying-fox" was rigged.
The face of the Shackleton Ice-Shelf 100 miles north of the mainland.
The open pools gave excellent fishing, and the upper ice shelf protected them perfectly from all enemies.
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