10 ENGLISH BOOKS RELATING TO «SHELF ICE»
Discover the use of
shelf ice in the following bibliographical selection. Books relating to
shelf ice and brief extracts from same to provide context of its use in English literature.
Shelf ice, stacked ten or fifteen feet in places, has been building on Lake Michigan for weeks. Sheriff Ray Elkins, responding to a late-night home invasion call, discovers the brutal murder of a local artist at her home deep in the woods.
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Atlas of Antarctica: Topographic Maps from Geostatistical ...
The shelf ice edge receded in the southern part of the ice shelf between 1966
and 1974 about 25 km, and everywhere a few to ten kilometers between 1974
and 1979. Swithinbank (1968) collected radio echosoundings in 1966, but
horizontal ...
Ute Christina Herzfeld, 2004
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Ocean Currents: A Derivative of the Encyclopedia of Ocean ...
Although there are several examples on the north coast of Greenland, the largest
ice shelves are found in the Antarctic where they cover 40% of the continental
shelf. Ice shelves can be up to 2 km thick and have horizontal extents of several ...
John H. Steele, Steve A. Thorpe, Karl K. Turekian, 2010
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Biology of the Southern Ocean, Second Edition
As the ice shelf thickens this water moves to deeper levels and melting near the
Barrier edge would lower the temperature to near freezing point, after which any
transfer of heat to the cold shelf ice would be accompanied by freezing, releasing
...
5
Sea-
Ice and Iceberg Sedimentation in the Ocean: Recent and Past
Nobody has managed to obtain bottom sediment samples from beneath the
Ronne- Filchner Ice Shelf. Ice shelf of the Pine Island in West Antarctica is an
example of a regressing glacier. The rate of regression is 8oo m per year. Its
thickness is ...
Alexander P. Lisitzin, 2002
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Antarctic Snow and
Ice Studies
Hence positive values of i (i.e., negative values of E3) indicate a thinning of the
shelf ice. Crary el al. [1962a, p. 102] calculated i for several places along his
seismic traverses. Some assumptions had to be made for the numerical values of
the ...
Malcolm Mellor, Albert P. Crary, 1964
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Antarctic Peninsula & Tierra del Fuego: 100 years of ...
In his first account from the expedition he calls this ice mass a "low ice terrace"
but in his official expedition report he suggests that it should be called "Schelfeis"
or shelf ice.3 The area north of Seal Nunataks and Christensen Island has lately
...
Jorge Rabassa, Maria Laura Borla, 2006
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Encyclopedia of Snow,
Ice and Glaciers
Cold meltwater produced at the base of shelf ice close to the grounding line.
Because of the pressure dependence of the freezing point, the rising limb of the
cell can cause ice platelets to form and accrete to the bottom of the shelf.
Vijay P. Singh, Pratap Singh, Umesh K. Haritashya, 2011
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Marine Ecological Processes: A derivative of the ...
Although there are several examples on the north coast of Greenland, the largest
ice shelves are found in the Antarctic where they cover 40% of the continental
shelf. Ice shelves can be up to 2 km thick and have horizontal extents of several ...
John H. Steele, Steve A. Thorpe, Karl K. Turekian, 2009
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Geology of Unalaska Island and Adjacent Insular
Shelf, ...
The shoreline was probably free of shelf ice some time after the end of the latest
Wisconsin advance and before the climatic optimum, or an estimated 8,000 years
ago. The climatic optimum is dated 4,000 to 6,000 years ago by Flint (1947, p.
2 NEWS ITEMS WHICH INCLUDE THE TERM «SHELF ICE»
Find out what the national and international press are talking about and how the term
shelf ice is used in the context of the following news items.
Shrinking Antarctic ice shelf raises sea level concerns
Scientists in the US report that the volume of Antarctic shelf ice is diminishing, and that there has been an 18% shrinkage in the mass of some ice floating on ... «RTCC, Mar 15»
Shelf ice on Lake Michigan beautiful but dangerous, South Haven …
But South Haven police warn people to stay off what is known as the "shelf ice." Shelf ice forms when cold temperatures freeze small areas of an open lake, ... «The Kalamazoo Gazette, Feb 14»
