Sentence examples for shelf breaking from inspiring English sources

Here we are, in mid-July, with our sanity melting, our norms crumbling, and the Larsen Ice Shelf breaking up and heading straight toward us.

To quote their notes, I "failed to inspire all-consuming visions of a five-thousand-square-mile Antarctic ice shelf breaking off in slow motion and plunging into a frigid, unforgiving sea of rabid masculinity".

Don't even think about it Bodies beautiful Don't panic Prison isn't working The prisoner's dilemma The green man The price of national pride Snapping at his heels Reprints Related items The Antarctic ice shelf: Breaking the iceMar 21st 2002Environmentalists point out that the green man's policies are not quite what they seem.

Shelf break, submerged offshore edge of a shallow continental shelf, where the seafloor transitions to continental slope.

When the Arctic's most massive ice shelf broke up in 2002, pulling the plug on a huge ice-dammed lake, it renewed concerns over global climate change.

On August 13 , 2005 the Ayles Ice Shelf broke free from the north coast of Ellesmere Island.

Several of the ice shelves broke up during the 1980s and '90s.

· Every year, the edges of ice shelves break off, or calve, into icebergs as a result of seasonal warming.

It is possible, in a human lifetime, to see sea levels rise and ice shelves break away, and, when they do, nothing about what happens next can be taken for granted.

- as shelves break into the sea, glaciers push forward, dumping ice into the sea - LOTS of ice: about 150 billion tons yearly now - raising sea levels.

A shelf break is characterized by markedly increased slope gradients toward the deep ocean bottom.