Sentence examples for section of the shelf from inspiring English sources

Scientists expect the remaining nub of Larsen B and C, the last section of the shelf, to fall apart in the coming years.

Pioneering studies of ice-sheet seismology, made on Byrd's second Antarctic expedition (1933 35), showed that a large northwestern section of the shelf (Roosevelt Island) is actually grounded, i.e., not afloat.

On the broad section of the shelf near the transition zone there is a tendency for formation of a large anticyclonic eddy.

It is placed on the Non-Fiction section of the shelf.

Borneo and parts of Java, Sumatra, and associated islands are eroded metamorphic sections of the shelf left above sea level.

The water flows down into cracks in the ice, its weight forcing the cracks wider until large sections of the shelf shatter with surprising quickness.

The scientists said they discovered the cracks about 60 miles from shore along a 25-mile section of the continental shelf off the Virginia and North Carolina coasts.

One of the more dramatic events in the Arctic in recent years was the detachment, in 2010, of a large section of the ice shelf attached to Petermann Glacier, in northwest Greenland.

In the May issue of Geology, marine geologist Neal Driscoll of the Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution in Massachusetts and his colleagues report that they have discovered 50-meter-deep cracks along a 40-kilometer section of the continental shelf off southern Virginia and North Carolina.

"As this rift continues to extend, it will eventually cause a large section of the ice shelf to break away as an iceberg," the research project wrote. .

Multiple successions of buried fluvial channel systems were identified in the Quaternary section of the mid-shelf region of the northern South China Sea, providing a new case study for understanding the interplay between sea level variations and climate change.