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ice front

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ice front [′īs ‚frənt]
(hydrology)
The floating vertical cliff forming the seaward face or edge of an ice shelf or other glacier that enters water.
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As the ice front advances, it gradually edges the walrus across the feeding ground.
Hey, what about us? there's more life on ice than celebrity bears by Milius, Susan / Science News
Go back a relatively short 18,000 years to the last Ice Age, when the ice front apparently stopped just short of us (north of Leeds) and left us with tundra-like icy-cold and a landscape fit only for "arctic" life.
When Castle Hill was beneath the sea by Huddersfield Daily Examiner (Huddersfield, England)
A comparison of the ice front of Stephenson Glacier (which terminates in a 113 m deep lagoon) using a high resolution satellite image taken in January 2003, showed a retreat of nearly 200 m; a dramatic change for just a one-year period.
Glacial retreat heralds changing Antarctic climate by Thost, Doug / Ecos
 
 
 
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