The phrase "advancing ice" is correct and usable in written English.
It can be used in contexts related to climate change, glaciology, or natural phenomena where ice is moving or expanding.
Example: "The advancing ice in the Arctic region is a clear indicator of the changing climate."
Alternatives: "moving ice" or "progressing ice".
Advancing ice brings lots of crud.
The depleted population of mastodons moved south to escape the advancing ice.
Thousands of years ago, as the glacier moved forward, debris from the valley walls was torn loose by the advancing ice and tumbled onto its face, creating a craggy obstacle course.
Last year 60,000 tourists visited El Calafate, the southern gateway to the mammoth Parque Nacional Los Glaciares (Glacier National Park), home to the Perito Moreno Glacier, one of the few advancing ice fields left in the world.
The advancing ice sheets pushed up material that remains today as terminal moraines, stretching across the country in a generally southeast-to-northwest direction and rising to some 500 feet (150 metres) above the general level.
Further thrusting during D3 was restricted to the core of the Mud Buttes as the deforming sequence accommodated further compression imposed by the advancing ice.
However, we also found that the aforementioned aggregation problem appears in water solidification assisted by ultrasound and TiO2 nanoparticles; that is, nanoparticles and bubbles tend to be pushed away by the advancing ice-water interface and finally cluster together in the middle of the container, especially at high ultrasonic powers.
Summary statement from the Reviewing Editor: Molecular dynamics simulations are used to study the trapping of an advancing ice-water interface by antifreeze proteins.
Disaster was only narrowly avoided when a change in the wind direction threatened to imprison Aurora between the Tongue and the advancing pack ice.
The putative common ancestor to both "sister genera" was hypothesized to have existed in northern Asia, based on reported fossil pollen records that date the taxa to the early Oligocene or lower Eocene of the lower Tertiary, with speciation accompanied by migrations during the Tertiary and Quaternary periods – forced southward by the advancing polar ice sheets.
When Pittsburgh tries to advance up ice along the boards, they are frequently met and crushed by a Wings defender (often Stuart or, especially, the deadly Niklas Kronvall) even before they reach the neutral zone.
