A larger shelf means legal access to more of the ocean floor’s riches: animals, hydrocarbons, and, perhaps most important, ...

The conventional wisdom emphasizes the influences of physical, chemical and biological processes of the ocean, while the effects of shelf weathering due to sea level changes are often overlooked ...

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However, climate models predict that shifting ocean currents may bring warmer water to the continental shelf in the future. To gain a clearer picture of the Filchner-Ronne Ice Shelf's future ...

"The change of seasons causes surface melting far inland from the coastal ice front," glaciologist Christopher Shuman said.