Sentences with phrase «floating glacier tongues»

The corresponding increased ice sheet mass loss has often followed thinning, reduction or loss of ice shelves or loss of floating glacier tongues.

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Along the coastline, the floating tongues of glaciers are breaking up.

Its floating front edge, the Totten ice shelf, sticks out like a tongue over the water and acts as a buttress for the giant glacier, slowing its movement toward the ocean.

Scientists previously thought that only glaciers with sturdy, cold ice, such as in Greenland, could form floating tongues.

Ice shelves are floating tongues of ice that extend from grounded glaciers on land.

Once again the key to this glacier's second major ice loss this decade after limited retreat in the last century, is thinning of the floating tongue, which weakens the glacier.

In the Amundsen Sea Embayment region of West Antarctica, where glaciers terminate in the ocean and extend over the waters via floating ice tongues, six major glaciers are experiencing rapid rates of retreat.

The recent increases in outlet glacier discharge have always been coincident with floating tongue losses.

In 1997, the floating tongue of Jakobshavn Glacier, the largest outlet of the Greenland Ice Sheet, began to disintegrate, and simultaneously the dynamic thinning of the glacier began.

Instead, the glacier develops a floating ice tongue - a shelf of ice that extends from the main body of the glacier out onto the waters of the fjord.

Upon reaching the sea, a number of these large outlet glaciers extend into the water with a floating «ice tongue».