ice tongue
Americannoun
Etymology
Origin of ice tongue
First recorded in 1890–95
Example Sentences
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Over the course of the austral summer, the floating ice tongue steadily broke apart through repeated calving events, leading to a retreat of roughly 16 kilometers.
From Science Daily • May 19, 2026
The study shows how the combination of a warm ocean inflow and a warming atmosphere affects the floating ice tongue of the 79° N-Glacier in northeast Greenland.
From Science Daily • Mar. 22, 2024
This study examines how global warming affects the stability of a floating ice tongue.
From Science Daily • Mar. 22, 2024
Although Thwaites’s western ice tongue lost 80 percent of its area in the past 25 years, the eastern shelf shrunk only about 15 percent.
From Scientific American • Oct. 18, 2022
I only hope that to the South of the Drygalski ice tongue, where the south-easterlies are the prevailing winds, we shall find the ice has held.
From South with Scott by Mountevans, Edward Ratcliffe Garth Russell Evans, baron
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