shallow
adjective
of little depth; not deep.
Used to describe an ongoing action or state that is currently taking place in the immediate present.
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Even the grand continuous mantles of ice that still cover Greenland, Spitsbergen, Nova Zembla, Franz-Joseph-Land, parts of Alaska, and the south polar region are shallowing and shrinking.
From The Mountains of California by John Muir