Sentences with phrase «stabilized glaciers behind it»
Once again, the demise of floating ice removed the backstop that stabilized glaciers behind it.
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The shelves slow and stabilize the glaciers behind them, but they are succumbing to a hidden force: Deep, warming ocean currents are melting the ice from beneath.
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At the grounding line, the ice detaches from the bedrock and juts out into the water as a kind of floating ledge, or ice shelf, which helps to stabilize the glacier and hold back the flow of ice behind it.
These ice shelves are responsible for stabilizing the glacier and hold back the flood of ice behind them.
At the grounding line, the ice detaches from the bedrock and juts out into the water as a kind of floating ledge, or ice shelf, which helps to stabilize the glacier and hold back the flow of ice behind it.