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Ice shelf

A large slab of ice floating on the sea, but remaining attached to and largely fed by land-derived ice.

Heavily crevassed margin of an ice shelf in Princess Elizabeth Land, East Antarctica. Tabular icebergs are about to calve from the ice shelf. Photo M. J. Hambrey, 1995.

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