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Definition: Ice Shelf |
Ice ShelfNoun1. Ice that is attached to land but projects out to sea. Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved. |
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Science | A thick mass of ice extending from a polar shore. The seaward edge is afloat and sometimes extends hundreds of miles into the sea. (references) |
Weather | A sheet of very thick ice with a level or gently undulating surface. It is attached to the land on one side, but most of it is floating. On the seaward side, it is bounded by a steep cliff (ice front) 2 to 50 m or more above sea level. Ice shelves have formed along polar coasts (e.g., Antarctica and Greenland); they are very wide with some extending several hundreds of kilometers toward the sea from the coastline. They increase in size from annual snow accumulation and seaward extension of land glaciers. They decrease in size from warming, melting, and calving. (references) |
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(From Wikipedia, the free Encyclopedia)
An ice shelf formed from both sea ice and glaciers is called a composite ice shelf. When a chunk breaks off from an ice shelf, this is called "calving" - like a mommy cow giving birth to a baby.
Scientists are divided over whether recent episodes of calving are alarming indicators of global warming or just normal, isolated local phenomena.
See: Ross Ice Shelf.
Source: adapted by the editor from Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia under a copyleft GNU Free Documentation License (GFDL) from the article "Ice shelf."
Synonym: Ice ShelfSynonym: shelf ice (n). (additional references) |
Crosswords: Ice Shelf |
| Specialty definitions using "ice shelf": grounding line ♦ ice front, ice island ♦ SKATE-SHOP ATTENDANT ♦ tabular berg. (references) |
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 | Drifting bits of sea ice. Ross Ice Shelf in the background.Credit: Paths Less Taken - NOAA at the Ends of the Earth. |  | Looking over broken sea ice to the Ross Ice Shelf.Credit: Paths Less Taken - NOAA at the Ends of the Earth. |
 | Advanced Very High Resolution Radiometer image of Ross Ice Shelf.Credit: Paths Less Taken - NOAA at the Ends of the Earth. |  | Edge of the Ross Ice Shelf as seen by the NATHANIEL B. PALMER.Credit: Paths Less Taken - NOAA at the Ends of the Earth. |
 | The Ross Ice Shelf at the Bay of Whales - the point where Amundsen staged his successful assault on the South Pole. 78 30 S Latitude 164 20W Longitude.Credit: Paths Less Taken - NOAA at the Ends of the Earth. |  | The seaward edge of the floating Ross Ice Shelf.Credit: Paths Less Taken - NOAA at the Ends of the Earth. |
 | An upward-looking RDI Acoustic Doppler Current Meter being deployed from the fantail of the National Science Foundation, Research Ice Breaker, NATHANIEL B. PALMER. The Ross Ice Shelf is in the background.Credit: Paths Less Taken - NOAA at the Ends of the Earth. |  | Recovering a RDI upward-looking Acoustic Doppler Current Profiler near the Ross Ice Shelf.Credit: Paths Less Taken - NOAA at the Ends of the Earth. |
 | Sea smoke over open water along the Ross Ice Shelf at the Bay of Whales. 78 30 S Latitude 164 20 W Longitude.Credit: Paths Less Taken - NOAA at the Ends of the Earth. |  | Deploying a sediment trap on a mooring along the Ross Ice Shelf.Credit: Paths Less Taken - NOAA at the Ends of the Earth. |
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| Language | Translations for "ice shelf"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | |
French | glace de barrière (barrier ice, shelf ice). (various references) | |
Pig Latin | iceay elfshay.(various references) | |
Spanish | hielo de barrera (barrier ice, shelf ice). (various references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references. | ||
Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
| Words within the letters "c-e-e-f-h-i-l-s" | |
-1 letter: filches, fleches, helices, lichees. | |
-2 letters: chiefs, chiels, chiles, chisel, elfish, fiches, fleche, fleech, leches, lichee, liches, seiche. | |
-3 letters: ceils, chefs, chief, chiel, chile, clefs, eches, feces, feels, fices, fiche, filch, files, flees, flesh, flics, flies, heels, heils, leech, shelf, shiel, slice. | |
-4 letters: cees, ceil, cels, chef, chis, clef, eche, eels, elhi, else, feel, fees, fehs, fice, file, fils, fisc, fish, flee, flic, heel, heil, hies, ices, ichs, isle, lech, lees, leis, lice, lich, lief, lies, life, seel, seif, self, sice. | |
-5 letters: cee, cel, chi, cis, eel, efs, elf, els, fee, feh, fie, fil, hes, hic, hie, his, ice, ich, ifs, lee, lei, lie, lis, sec, see, sei, sel, she, sic. | |
| Words containing the letters "c-e-e-f-h-i-l-s" | |
+4 letters: candlefishes, chesterfield, cuttlefishes. | |
+5 letters: chesterfields, officeholders. | |
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Hexadecimal (or equivalents, 770AD-1900s) (references)49 63 65 53 68 65 6C 66 |
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Binary Code (1918-1938, probably earlier) (references)01001001 01100011 01100101 00100000 01010011 01101000 01100101 01101100 01100110 |
HTML Code (1990) (references)I c e   S h e l f |
ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)0049 0063 0065 0053 0068 0065 006C 0066 |
Encryption (beginner's substitution cypher): (references)43697125374717872 |
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