Examples of ice shelf in a Sentence

Recent Examples on the Web That allows ocean waves to rock the ice shelf, further stressing it. — New York Times, 14 Apr. 2022 Scientists had been seeing the ice shelf shrink a bit since the 1970s, Neff said. — Seth Borenstein, chicagotribune.com, 25 Mar. 2022 The team first spotted the phenomenon in 2018 using Google Earth; an overhead view showed sea ice floating in a river carving into the ice shelf. — Theo Nicitopoulos, Scientific American, 21 Mar. 2022 Soaring temperatures caused an ice shelf the size of Los Angeles to collapse in Antarctica in March. — Ashley Strickland, CNN, 16 Apr. 2022 For the first time since satellites began observing Antarctica nearly half a century ago, an ice shelf has collapsed on the eastern part of the continent. — New York Times, 11 Apr. 2022 That trend is driven by warm ocean water melting the bottom of the floating ice shelf, not surface melt. — NBC News, 27 Mar. 2022 An ice shelf the size of New York City has collapsed in East Antarctica, according to scientists. — Julia Musto, Fox News, 26 Mar. 2022 What began as a rescue attempt after a man fell off an ice shelf at Indiana Dunes National Park Monday afternoon had been deemed a body recovery mission by Tuesday morning, Indiana Department of Natural Resources officials said. — Olivia Olander, chicagotribune.com, 22 Feb. 2022 See More

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