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|a The Antarctic Peninsula's retreating ice shelves |h [electronic resource]. |
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|a [S.l.] : |b British Antarctic Survey, |c 2012. |
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|a Please contact the owning institution for licensing and permissions. It is the user's responsibility to ensure use does not violate any third party rights. |
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|a Ice shelves are the floating extensions of a grounded ice sheet.
Although a few small ice shelves exist in the Arctic, most occupy
bays around the coast of Antarctica. They were once thought to
be permanent features of the Antarctic landscape. The largest ice
shelf, the Ronne-Filchner, covers an area slightly smaller than Spain.
Over many decades, ice shelves find their natural size when the
amount of snow falling on the surface, and the amount ice delivered
by glaciers, balances the rate of ice loss through melting and iceberg calving. A change in any of these factors will cause an ice shelf to change its size to find a new equilibrium. |
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|a Electronic reproduction. |c Florida International University, |d 2015. |f (dpSobek) |n Mode of access: World Wide Web. |n System requirements: Internet connectivity; Web browser software. |
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|a British Antarctic Survey. |
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|a dpSobek |c Sea Level Rise |
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|u http://dpanther.fiu.edu/dpService/dpPurlService/purl/FI15062161/00001 |y Click here for full text |
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