Sentences with phrase «recent ice shelf collapses»

The site was chosen because of its proximity to recent ice shelf collapses.

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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.

The impacts of this recent regional rapid warming around the Antarctic Peninsula have been dramatic, with the collapse of ice shelves [14], and with 87 % of glaciers in recession [15].

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Its disintegration was the third recent, sudden collapse of an Antarctic ice shelf, following the collapses of the 618 - square mile Larsen A Ice Shelf in 1995 and the 425 - square mile Wilkins Ice Shelf in 19ice shelf, following the collapses of the 618 - square mile Larsen A Ice Shelf in 1995 and the 425 - square mile Wilkins Ice Shelf in 19Ice Shelf in 1995 and the 425 - square mile Wilkins Ice Shelf in 19Ice Shelf in 1998.

It was the tenth major ice shelf to collapse in recent times.

In 2002, the Larsen B ice shelf collapsed; in 2003, the World Glacial Monitoring Service reported that «The recent increase in the rates of ice loss over reduced glacier surface areas as compared with earlier losses related to larger surface areas (cf. the thorough revision of available data by Dyurgerov, 2002) becomes even more pronounced and leaves no doubt about the accelerating change in climatic conditions.»