Antonyms for ice shelfice shelf

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1. shelf ice, ice shelfnoun

   ice that is attached to land but projects out to sea

   Synonyms:
   shelf ice

How to use ice shelf in a sentence?

1. Julienne Stroeve:

   I think it's too soon to say it will, however, it's likely that the atmosphere will play an increasing role in ice shelf breakup by weakening them through surface melting.

2. Rob Larter:

   I don't think there has been a shelf collapse like this in East Antarctica since we've been able to receive satellite data, conger is a very small ice shelf which has been decreasing in size for many years and this was just the final step which caused it to collapse.

3. Peter Davis:

   From the satellite data, we're seeing these big fractures spreading across the ice shelf surface, essentially weakening the fabric of the ice ; kind of a bit like a windscreen crack, it's slowly spreading across the ice shelf and eventually it's going to fracture into lots of different pieces.

4. David Holland via AP:

   I think the ice shelf will be gone in a matter of years to decades, but the actual inland ice, that’s the really unknown question.

5. Derek Mueller:

   It is lucky that we were not on The Milne Ice Shelf when this happened, our camp area and instruments were all destroyed in this event.

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