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ice shelf
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ice shelf
n
(Earth Sciences / Physical Geography) a thick mass of ice that is permanently attached to the land but projects into and floats on the sea
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Noun1.ice shelf - ice that is attached to land but projects out to seaice shelf - ice that is attached to land but projects out to sea
shelf ice
ice - the frozen part of a body of water
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Global warming has been blamed for the alarming loss of ice shelves in Antarctica, but a new study says newly-exposed areas of sea are now soaking up some of the carbon gas that causes the problem.
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Many of its ice shelves have retreated in that time and six of them have collapsed completely.
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Formed by accumulating snow and freezing melt-water, ice shelves are large platforms of thick, ancient sea ice that float on the ocean's surface but are connected to land.
Canada loses ancient ice shelf by Aljazeera.net
 
 
 
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