Sentences with phrase «remaining ice shelf collapses»

However, if the remaining ice shelf collapses or starts losing mass more rapidly, it could effectively unplug the glaciers next to the shelf, sending land - based ice into Southern Ocean, and contributing to sea level rise.

Not exact matches

Now seafloor sediments reveal that Larsen B's grounding line had remained stable for thousands of years before the ice shelf's collapse.

Only floating sea ice (bottom right) remains of the collapsed Larsen B ice shelf off the Antarctic Peninsula.

Losing a massive, state - sized ice block may leave the remaining shelf vulnerable to further climate change - related conditions and its collapse will occur earlier, O'Leary explained.

By examining past ice shelf collapse and projecting the next century of temperature change onto current ice shelves, Trusel and his fellow researchers found a huge difference between a business - as - usual fossil fuel emission scenario, in which ice melt may increase eight-fold, and a scenario where emissions are stabilized relatively rapidly and ice melt remains relatively linear.