Sentences with phrase «front edges of glaciers»
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.
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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.