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shore ice

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shore ice [′shȯr ‚īs]
(oceanography)
Sea ice that has been beached by wind, tides, currents, or ice pressure; it is a type of fast ice, and may sometimes be rafted ice.
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But melting of on shore ice does pose the prospect of sea level increase, with estimates ranging from a conservative two feet this century--enough to doom low lying places such as the Bengali and Mississippi deltas--to 20 feet if the West Antarctic Ice Sheet melts.
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