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Definition of Ice shelf
1. Noun. Ice that is attached to land but projects out to sea.
Definition of Ice shelf
1. Noun. A thick, floating platform of ice that forms where a glacier or ice sheet flows down to a coastline and onto the ocean surface. Ice shelves are found in Antarctica, Greenland, and Canada only. ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Lexicographical Neighbors of Ice Shelf
Literary usage of Ice shelf
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Probability of Sea Level Rise by James G. Titus, Vijay K. Narayanan (1998)
"Basal Melting of Ice Shelves: Generalizing the Relations Expressed in the Polar
Research Board Report Ross ice shelf Like the PRB, we started by employing ..."
2. Preventing the Forward Contamination of Mars by National Research Council (U.S.). Committee on Preventing the Forward Contamination of Mars, National Research Council (U.S.). Space Studies Board, National Research Council (U.S.). Division on Engineering and Physical Sciences (2006)
"... (glacial ice—Ross ice shelf, Antarctica) M Psychrobacter ... SOS Orange (hypersaline
pond—McMurdo ice shelf, Antarctica) r Exiguobacterium ..."
3. America on the Ice: Antarctic Policy Issues by Frank G. Klotz (1998)
"McMurdo Sound (including Marble Point) ice shelf. (See Map 8. ... It also has
aircraft landing strips on sea ice and the ice shelf within two and seven ..."
4. Selected Worldwide Marine Weather Broadcastsby DIANE Publishing Company by DIANE Publishing Company (1995)
"... ice limit ice-shelf level ice new ice field of ice floe pack-ice, drift-ice
polar ice shore lead slush or sludge winter-ice young glace Miscellaneous ..."
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