Sentences with phrase «passive shelf ice»
«Once ice loss through the calving of icebergs goes beyond the passive shelf ice and cuts into the safety band, ice flow towards the ocean will accelerate, which might well entail an elevated contribution to sea - level rise for decades and centuries to come.»
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The researchers will conduct ground - penetrating radar and passive seismic surveys of the still - intact ice shelf, looking for shifts in the subsurface ice.
They calculated that only 13 % of the total ice shelf area of Antarctica could be called «passive» ice − that is, it plays no role in buttressing or slowing the land - borne ice.