Sentences with phrase «ice shelves serve»

Ice shelves serve as a crucial barrier to prevent land - based ice sheets as well as glaciers from melting into oceans and increasing sea levels.

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In a shallow part of the sea floor underneath the ice shelf, a bedrock protrusion, named the Bawden Ice Rise, has served as an anchor point for the floating shelf for many decadice shelf, a bedrock protrusion, named the Bawden Ice Rise, has served as an anchor point for the floating shelf for many decadIce Rise, has served as an anchor point for the floating shelf for many decades.

«It was the biggest collapse of its kind up to that point, and it served to demonstrate how ice shelves regulate the movement of ice from the interior of the ice sheet to the ocean.»

In a new study published in the Journal of Geophysical Research: Oceans in July, researchers found that phytoplankton, marine microorganisms that serve as the foundation of the food chain in the ocean, were more likely to thrive with the melting of the continent's ice shelves and ice sheets.

Livescience: When iceberg chunks break off of floating ice shelves, it can serve as dramatic proof of melting — and this traditionally has been considered the main way that these expanses of Antarctic ice become smaller.

It serves as a brake on the pace of glaciers on their journey down to the sea — and the combined impact of warmer atmospheres and warmer seas in the Southern Ocean are rapidly thinning much of the ice shelf.