Ice shelves (the floating
front edges of glaciers that extend tens to hundreds of miles offshore) melt more because of contact with ocean water below them than they do because of sunlight.
Not exact matches
Break up
of a floating «ice shelf» in
front of the
glacier left tall ice «cliffs» at its
edge.
RETREATING ICE Jakobshavn Glacier in western Greenland (its
front edge, where ice is calving into the ocean, shown here in 2012) is one
of the world's fastest - shrinking
glaciers.
Walk the «
Edge of the
Glacier Trail» to get a great photo in
front of glacier ice.