Sentence examples for floating ice from inspiring English sources

Floating ice shelves fringe about 30 percent of Antarctica's coastline, and the transition area where floating ice meets ice that sits directly on bedrock is known as the grounding line.

Branches of warm Atlantic currents push floating ice northward.

Shackleton Ice Shelf, sheet of floating ice bordering Queen Mary Coast, Antarctica, on the Indian Ocean.

Its floating ice cap is shrinking and thinning and its glaciers are retreating.

Many other islands and floating ice shelves lie off the coast.

The Pechora Sea is blocked by floating ice from November until June.

Walter, F. et al. Iceberg calving during transition from grounded to floating ice: Columbia Glacier, Alaska.

Shepherd, A. et al. Recent loss of floating ice and the consequent sea level contribution.

The reflectors turn into ice-shelf channels (c,d) incising the floating ice shelf.

Sea ice is the free-floating ice that surrounds the polar regions.

In July 2002, the researchers landed on the shelf and found its center had fractured into free-floating ice blocks.