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We are talking about a cold environment, slow biodegradation of oil or anything else that is spilt in the sea, and the danger of oil getting under theiceshelf.
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The resulting tabular iceberg drifts northwest until it runs aground upon a shoal north of theiceshelf.
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This example is from Wikipedia and may be reused under a CC BY-SA license.It is the sudden release and breaking away of a mass of ice from a glacier, iceberg, ice front,iceshelf, or crevasse.
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This example is from Wikipedia and may be reused under a CC BY-SA license.The feature rises nearly above the general level of theiceshelfwhich surrounds all but the northern side.
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This example is from Wikipedia and may be reused under a CC BY-SA license.As the end of the winter approached, he commenced a series of experiments with the seismic equipment on theiceshelfand plateau edge.
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Eventually the rising seabed and the deepeningiceshelfmeet near the coast at the so-called 'grounding line'.
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They were not associated with any visible calvings and were assumed to be due to adjustments within theiceshelf.
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They re-crossed theiceshelfand climbed to the advance base, obtaining good results.
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Only three landings were made, all on theiceshelf.
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Besides, such a descent would be foolhardy in the extreme, in the absence of maps of the shape of the seabed and of the under-side of theiceshelf.
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Barrier is an obsolete term foriceshelf.
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This example is from Wikipedia and may be reused under a CC BY-SA license.In 1986, theiceshelfhad an area of about 290 square kilometers, with a central thickness of 100 meters.
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This example is from Wikipedia and may be reused under a CC BY-SA license.An ice rise forms where theiceshelftouches the rocky seabed because of an elevation in the seabed that remains below sea level.
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This example is from Wikipedia and may be reused under a CC BY-SA license.The boundary between the floatingiceshelfand the grounded (resting on bedrock) ice that feeds it is called the grounding line.
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This example is from Wikipedia and may be reused under a CC BY-SA license.The role of the rift-filling mlange may be to bind tabularice-shelffragments to the mainiceshelfbefore they calve.
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This example is from Wikipedia and may be reused under a CC BY-SA license.The calving occurred along pre-existing cracks in theiceshelf.
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This example is from Wikipedia and may be reused under a CC BY-SA license.In summer, they graze on dense swarms of plankton at the edge of theiceshelf.
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This example is from Wikipedia and may be reused under a CC BY-SA license.Hence, affecting theiceshelfstability and flow rates.
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This example is from Wikipedia and may be reused under a CC BY-SA license.These examples are from corpora and from sources on the web. Any opinions in the examples do not represent the opinion of the Cambridge Dictionary editors or of Cambridge University Press or its licensors.