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  1. n. 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.

WordNet 3.0

  1. n. ice that is attached to land but projects out to sea

Examples

  • “The weight of the ice shelf on top of the ocean must be pushing plankton-rich sea-water up into the hole. ”

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  • “The sudden red-white glow illuminated the ice shelf in a ten-yard radius all around them.”

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  • “The Delta Force's errors on the ice shelf earlier had been a rare but explainable occurrence.”

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  • “The Delta Force's plan to stage an accident by arranging four dead bodies on the ice shelf was no longer a viable option.”

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  • “The cavernous main chamber of NASA's habisphere would have been a strange sight anywhere on earth, but the fact that it existed on an Arctic ice shelf made it that much more difficult for Rachel Sexton to assimilate.”

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  • “Earlier, Delta-One had informed the controller that unexpected events on the ice shelf had left his team with no option but to exercise force – force that had included killing four civilians, including Rachel Sexton and Michael Tolland.”

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