Sentences with phrase «extensive ice tongue»

Its extensive ice tongue makes it particularly susceptible to basal melt processes, due to the area and duration of exposure of the glacier base.

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In Greenland, where the glaciers empty onto narrow fjords, the ice shelves, also known as ice tongues, are far less extensive.
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