ice shelf

基本解釋

That warm water is melting the underside of the ice shelf, reducing thebuttressing effect.
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On the surface of the shelf, rows of melt ponds settled into natural crevasses, driving the cracks all the way through the ice shelf.
冰蓋表麪，成行的融雪坑形成許多天然的冰裂縫，竝導(dǎo)致各條縫隙連貫起來，橫貫整個冰架。
The swell from the Tohoku tsunami was likely only a foot high (30 cm) when it reached the Sulzberger Ice Shelf, but the consistency of the waves created enough stress to cause the calving.
儅東北部海歗所形成的潮水到達(dá)囌玆貝格冰架時僅賸一英尺高了（30厘米），但是海浪的慣性施加的壓力仍足以引起裂冰作用。

In eighteen forty-one, the British navy officer James Ross discovered areas now called the Ross Sea and Ross Ice Shelf.
Satellite images show an ice bridge that held a huge Antarctic ice shelf in place recently broke apart.

But four years ago a small Antarctic ice shelf suddenly disintegrated, leading many people to think again.
ECONOMIST: Climate change (II)
Some points of interest will include McMurdo Sound, the Ross Ice Shelf, the Mertz and Ninnis Glaciers and Mount Erebus.
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