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Platforms > Land-based Platforms > Field Sites > Ice Shelf

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Ice Shelf  

Definition

  • Permanent floating sheets of ice that connect to a landmass. Most of the world's ice shelves hug the coast of Antarctica. However, ice shelves can also form wherever ice flows from land into cold ocean waters, including some glaciers in the Northern Hemisphere. The northern coast of Canada's Ellesmere Island is home to several well-known ice shelves, among them the Markham and the Ward Hunt ice shelves. (en)

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  • Ice Shelf (en)

Change note

  • 2018-11-07 16:50:54.0 [sritz] Insert Concept add broader relation (Ice Shelf [dd445d5a-14d5-4813-b1cb-243799a044f7,368249] - In Situ Land-based Platforms [4f396ff6-7bea-4ba4-afa3-198ebd914a4a,344951]);
  • 2018-11-07 16:51:20.0 [sritz] insert AltLabel (id: null category: null text: Ice Shelf language code: en);
  • 2021-11-17 13:45:25.0 [tstevens] Move Concepts delete broader relation (null); add broader relation (Ice Shelf [dd445d5a-14d5-4813-b1cb-243799a044f7,826818] - Field Sites [ca8f355b-7f63-407d-89bb-d3a6cd10d683,835886]);
  • 2022-02-08 13:30:39.0 [tstevens] insert Definition (id: null text: Permanent floating sheets of ice that connect to a landmass. Most of the world's ice shelves hug the coast of Antarctica. However, ice shelves can also form wherever ice flows from land into cold ocean waters, including some glaciers in the Northern Hemisphere. The northern coast of Canada's Ellesmere Island is home to several well-known ice shelves, among them the Markham and the Ward Hunt ice shelves. language code: en);

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https://gcmd.earthdata.nasa.gov/kms/concept/dd445d5a-14d5-4813-b1cb-243799a044f7

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