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The Ross Ice Shelf and the Ronnie Ice Shelf are the two biggest ice shelves in Antarctica.
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Two major ice shelves in Antarctica?
You may be thinking of the Ross Ice Shelf or the Larson Ice Shelf.
What are the names of the main ice shelves in Antarctica?
You may be thinking of the Ross Ice Shelf, and the Larson Ice Shelves.Other major ice shelves are named Ekstrom, Amery, West, Shackleton and Voyeykov.
What is happening to the ice shelves in antarctica?
Several of the ice shelves attached to Antarctica are disintegrating because the sea water is melting them from below.
Why do the ice shelves melt in summer in Antarctica?
Melting of Antarctica's ice shelves occurs underwater, based on warming ocean water. which melts the shelves from underneath. This phenomenon occurs all year and is not limited to summer.
Why is it important to get updated data about Antarctica's ice cover and ice shelves?
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What is drifting ice in antarctica?
Icebergs (drifting ice) in Antarctica have broken off from the glaciers and ice shelves that stretch out over the sea at the continent's coastline.
How many ice shelves are there in antarctica?
lot's most of them brock down
How are the ice sheets of Antarctica breaking?
Your question is really about ice shelves, not the Antarctic ice sheet. The ice shelves are deteriorating because of warmer ocean waters that melt the ice shelf from below.
What is an ice shelf?
an ice shelf is a shelf of ice, which is floating on the water. There are several large ice shelves around Antarctica.
What do the ice shelves in Antarctica form?
Ice shelves in Antarctica form barriers to continental land, but are so large as to be effectively connected to the continent permanently. Ice shelves can be extremely tall -- hundreds of feet -- above the water line and so deep -- hundreds of metres -- as to make the water under them impenetrable by current technologies.
What is covering two large bays on antarctica?
You may be thinking of the Ross Ice Shelf and the Larson Ice Shelves.
Why is most of the ice in Antarctica below sea level?
Antarctica's ice sheet rests on 98% of the continent. It has been said that the ice is so heavy, ". . . In East Antarctica, the ice sheet rests on a major land mass, but in West Antarctica the bed can extend to more than 2,500 m below sea level." Quoted from the Antarctic Ice Sheet entry in Wikipedia. This is some, not most of the ice sheet. Ice shelves exist mostly below sea level.
