Ice shelf
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High Quality Content by WIKIPEDIA articles! An ice shelf is 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. The boundary between the floating ice shelf and the grounded resting on bedrock ice that feeds it is called the grounding line. The thickness of ice shelves ranges from about 100 to 1000 meters.In contrast, sea ice is formed on water, is much thinner typically less than 3m, and forms throughout the Arctic Ocean. It also is found in the Southern O...
High Quality Content by WIKIPEDIA articles! An ice shelf is 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. The boundary between the floating ice shelf and the grounded resting on bedrock ice that feeds it is called the grounding line. The thickness of ice shelves ranges from about 100 to 1000 meters.In contrast, sea ice is formed on water, is much thinner typically less than 3m, and forms throughout the Arctic Ocean. It also is found in the Southern Ocean around the continent of Antarctica.
