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Shelf ice along the southern Lake Michigan Shoreline at Indiana Dunes National Park
Shelf ice is ice that forms when a portion of a lake surface freezes. It is often then washed upon the shore. The phenomenon is common within the Great Lakes.[1]
^Hillman-Rapley, Lynda (2017-02-03). "Walking on shelf ice can be deadly". Exeter Lakeshore Times-Advance. Retrieved 2020-02-05.
An iceshelf is a large platform of glacial ice floating on the ocean, fed by one or multiple tributary glaciers. Ice shelves form along coastlines where...
The Ross IceShelf is the largest iceshelf of Antarctica (as of 2013[update], an area of roughly 500,809 square kilometres (193,363 sq mi) and about 800...
The Larsen IceShelf is a long iceshelf in the northwest part of the Weddell Sea, extending along the east coast of the Antarctic Peninsula from Cape...
Shelfice is ice that forms when a portion of a lake surface freezes. It is often then washed upon the shore. The phenomenon is common within the Great...
The Brunt IceShelf borders the Antarctic coast of Coats Land between Dawson-Lambton Glacier and Stancomb-Wills Glacier Tongue. It was named by the UK...
The Getz IceShelf (74°15′S 125°00′W / 74.250°S 125.000°W / -74.250; -125.000 (Getz IceShelf)) is an iceshelf over 300 nautical miles (560 km; 350 mi)...
Milne IceShelf, a fragment of the former Ellesmere IceShelf, is located in the Qikiqtaaluk Region, Nunavut, Canada. It is the second largest iceshelf in...
The Amery IceShelf (69°45′S 71°0′E / 69.750°S 71.000°E / -69.750; 71.000) is a broad iceshelf in Antarctica at the head of Prydz Bay between the Lars...
Dotson IceShelf is an iceshelf about 30 miles (50 km) wide between Martin Peninsula and Bear Peninsula on the coast of Marie Byrd Land in Antarctica...
Thwaites IceShelf (75°6′S 105°31′W / 75.100°S 105.517°W / -75.100; -105.517), is an Antarctic iceshelf in the Amundsen Sea. It was named by ACAN after...
The Wordie IceShelf (69°15′S 67°45′W / 69.250°S 67.750°W / -69.250; -67.750) was a confluent glacier projecting as an iceshelf into the SE part of...
0°10′W / 70.500°S 0.167°W / -70.500; -0.167 The Fimbul IceShelf is an Antarctic iceshelf about 200 km (120 mi) long and 100 km (60 mi) wide, nourished...
or ice disruption. It is the sudden release and breaking away of a mass of ice from a glacier, iceberg, ice front, iceshelf, or crevasse. The ice that...
About 75% of the coastline of Antarctica is ice shelf. The majority of iceshelf consists of floating ice, and a lesser amount consists of glaciers that...
shelf, the extended perimeter of a continent, usually covered by shallow seas Iceshelf, a thick platform of ice floating on the ocean surface Shelf,...
gouging by ice – Outcome of the interaction between drifting ice and the seabed Sea ice – Outcome of seawater as it freezes Shelfice – Ice formed on a...
Shackleton IceShelf Shackleton IceShelf is an extensive iceshelf fronting the coast of East Antarctica from 95° E to 105° E. It extends for an along-shore...
West IceShelf The West IceShelf is a prominent iceshelf extending about 350 km (220 mi) in an east–west direction along the Leopold and Astrid Coast...
A continental shelf is a portion of a continent that is submerged under an area of relatively shallow water, known as a shelf sea. Much of these shelves...
The Serson IceShelf is a major iceshelf on the northern coast of Ellesmere Island in Qikiqtaaluk Region, Nunavut, Canada. It measured approximately 47...
An iceberg is a piece of freshwater ice more than 15 m long that has broken off a glacier or an iceshelf and is floating freely in open water. Smaller...
The Markham IceShelf was one of five major ice shelves in Canada, all on the north coast of Ellesmere Island, Nunavut. The iceshelf broke off from the...
these were the Serson IceShelf, Petersen IceShelf, Milne IceShelf, Ayles IceShelf, Ward Hunt IceShelf, and Markham IceShelf. The smaller pieces continued...
14°45′E / 69.617°S 14.750°E / -69.617; 14.750 The Lazarev IceShelf is that part of the iceshelf fringing the Princess Astrid Coast of Queen Maud Land,...
glacier behind them, while an absence of an iceshelf becomes destabilizing. For instance, when Larsen B iceshelf in the Antarctic Peninsula had collapsed...
Gazetteer. The iceshelf areas are listed below, clockwise, starting in the west of East Antarctica: † Indicates that the iceshelf has collapsed. List...
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