Sentences with phrase «nearby ice shelves»
Some losses from nearby ice shelves have been underway for decades.
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Rift through Larsen C ice shelf has grown to 175 kilometers, and collapse of nearby ice shelves could offer a glimpse of its future
After large icebergs broke away from nearby ice shelves in recent decades, they collapsed and the land ice they were buttressing tumbled into the sea.
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Surface melting is thought to have played a big part in the break - up of the nearby Larsen B ice shelf in 2002.
That changes the patterns of stress in the ice, which ripple across the ice shelf and can cause nearby lakes to drain, setting up a chain reaction by which the entire lake - ridden portion of the ice shelf can splinter.
The nearby Moscow University Glacier and its floating ice shelf were showing little change.
«Global climate change is causing Antarctic ice shelves to shrink and split apart, yielding thousands of free - drifting icebergs in the nearby Weddell Sea,» states a news release from the University of California at San Diego.