About Ice Shelf
An ice shelf is a thick suspended platform of ice that forms where a glacier or ice sheet flows down to a coastline and onto the ocean surface. Ice shelves are only found in Antarctica, Greenland, Canada, and the Russian Arctic.
A23a: World's biggest iceberg on the move after 30 years
... A23a was part of a mass outbreak of bergs from the White Continent s Filchner Ice Shelf...
Sea-level rise: West Antarctic ice shelf melt 'unavoidable'
... The authors caution that further work is needed to increase confidence in its conclusions, but the findings are significant because of how Ice Shelf melting affects the rest of West Antarctica...
Antarctic ocean currents heading for collapse- report
... The study also highlighted how warming oceans could trigger greater melting of the western Antarctica Ice Shelf, but it did not examine how this could create a feedback effect, and even more melting...
How a colossal block of ice became an obsession
... The first picture captures the definitive and distinctive outline of the berg in the days immediately after it broke from the edge of Antarctica s Amery Ice Shelf...
'The closest thing on Earth to interplanetary travel'
... By the time the C-17 cargo plane skids to a halt on the Ross Ice Shelf we re already late - snow on the runway has set us back a day...
Denman Glacier: Deepest point on land found in Antarctica
... If something happened to the Ross Sea Ice Shelf - and right now it s fine, but if something happened - it will most likely not trigger the collapse of East Antarctica through these gates ...
Yikes! Fox and rodent-battle is top wildlife photo
... More than 5,000 Emperor penguins gather in their classic huddle formation, the wind hit, and in the late winter cold on the sea-ice in front of the Ekström Ice Shelf in East Antarctica...
315 billion-tonne iceberg breaks off Antarctica
...The EU s Sentinel-1 satellite system captured these before and after images The Amery Ice Shelf in Antarctica has just produced its biggest iceberg in more than 50 years...
Ice shelf Photos
