shelf ice

Example Sentences

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These trucks have large tires to reduce the pressure on the sea ice and shelf ice roads near McMurdo.

From New York Times • Jan. 20, 2011

So at 2 a.m., about 50 of us jammed into “Ivan” the TerraBus and Deltas, vehicles with giant snow tires, and rode over the shelf ice to Pegasus.

From New York Times • Jan. 20, 2011

A C-17 cargo plane landing on the shelf ice at Pegasus.

From New York Times • Jan. 20, 2011

The conference saw global warming differently, perhaps influenced by the Rhode Island-size hunk of shelf ice that broke off Antarctica recently.

From Time Magazine Archive

The snow was coming down harder, but it was very still, except that from far off I heard the rumbling of shelf ice.

From "Black Star, Bright Dawn" by Scott O'Dell