ice tongue

noun

1. a section of ice projecting from the base of a glacier.

Word History and Origins

Origin of ice tongue¹

First recorded in 1890–95

Example Sentences

This study examines how global warming affects the stability of a floating ice tongue.

From Science Daily

The study shows how the combination of a warm ocean inflow and a warming atmosphere affects the floating ice tongue of the 79° N-Glacier in northeast Greenland.

From Science Daily

The “fast arm” on its western side is a fragile, floating “ice tongue.”

From Scientific American

In every scenario, the eastern ice shelf will meet a fate similar to the western ice tongue: its constituent shards will disconnect and drift away.

From Scientific American

Although Thwaites’s western ice tongue lost 80 percent of its area in the past 25 years, the eastern shelf shrunk only about 15 percent.

From Scientific American