Sentence examples for shelf ice from inspiring English sources

This shelf ice has been the principal source of the ice islands of the Arctic Ocean.

What processes are driving the loss of shelf ice across the south pole?

Thus, although the barrier's position appears almost stationary, it actually undergoes continual change by calving and melting that accompany northward movement of the shelf ice.

The scientists who observed the breakup of the Markham Ice Shelf estimated that almost one-quarter of Canada's shelf ice had melted this year.

"What we have found is that the ocean is getting underneath the shelf ice at Pine Island and that the sea water is clearly getting warmer," Smith says.

As their "pastry cases" of shelf ice dissipate, so glaciers are spilling, like trifle, into the sea – and at increasing speed.

Samples from beneath Antarctic ice shelves, ice streams, and subglacial lakes contain important paleoclimatic and paleoenvironmental records, and these environments also provide a unique habitat for life.

Witnessing the silent white/blue coldness of ice shelves, ice caps, glaciers and icebergs in our polar regions is life-altering.

Melting of floating ice shelves (ice that originated on the land) does not in itself contribute much to sea-level rise (since the ice displaces only its own mass of water).

I've given a recipe here for tuile biscuits, but you could also use a suitable off-the-shelf ice-cream biscuit.

Poetry: "Three weeks ago /  They plowed it to the curb — / This continental shelf of ice and snow".