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Definition of ice shelf in English English dictionary
- 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
- A floating sheet of ice permanently attached to a land mass
- shelf ice
- An extension of glacial ice into coastal waters that is in contact with the bottom near the shore but not toward the outer edge of the shelf
- shelf ice
- ice that is attached to land but projects out to sea
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/ˈīs ˈsʜelf/ /ˈaɪs ˈʃɛlf/
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