ice shelf

基本解释

That warm water is melting the underside of the ice shelf, reducing thebuttressing effect.
温暖的海水正在融化冰架的下层，降低了它的支撑作用。
On the surface of the shelf, rows of melt ponds settled into natural crevasses, driving the cracks all the way through the ice shelf.
冰盖表面，成行的融雪坑形成许多天然的冰裂缝，并导致各条缝隙连贯起来，横贯整个冰架。
The swell from the Tohoku tsunami was likely only a foot high (30 cm) when it reached the Sulzberger Ice Shelf, but the consistency of the waves created enough stress to cause the calving.
当东北部海啸所形成的潮水到达苏兹贝格冰架时仅剩一英尺高了（30厘米），但是海浪的惯性施加的压力仍足以引起裂冰作用。

In eighteen forty-one, the British navy officer James Ross discovered areas now called the Ross Sea and Ross Ice Shelf.
Satellite images show an ice bridge that held a huge Antarctic ice shelf in place recently broke apart.

But four years ago a small Antarctic ice shelf suddenly disintegrated, leading many people to think again.
ECONOMIST: Climate change (II)
Some points of interest will include McMurdo Sound, the Ross Ice Shelf, the Mertz and Ninnis Glaciers and Mount Erebus.
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