Getz Ice Shelf

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Getz Ice Shelf is a large Antarctic ice shelf fringing the coast of Marie Byrd Land in the Amundsen Sea, known for its extensive calving front and contribution to regional ice loss.

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Predicate Object
instanceOf glacial feature
ice shelf
affectedBy climate change
ocean-driven basal melting
borderedBy grounded ice of Marie Byrd Land
open ocean
contributesTo regional ice loss
sea-level rise
fringesCoastOf Marie Byrd Land
hasCalvingFront extensive
hasCalvingStyle tabular iceberg calving
hasClimateZone Antarctic coastal climate zone
hasCoastlineOn Amundsen Sea
hasDynamicState increasing ice discharge
retreating
thinning
hasEnvironment marine-terminating
polar
hasFeature crevasses
grounding line
ice front
rifts
hasIceFlowDirection generally northward toward Amundsen Sea
hasLanguageVariant Getz Ice Shelf (English)
linked to: Getz Ice Shelf
hasProcess calving
hasRegionType coastal ice shelf
hasSnowAccumulation high relative to interior Antarctica
interactsWith Southern Ocean
circumpolar deep water
isConsidered one of the rapidly changing Antarctic ice shelves
isPartOfSystem Amundsen Sea ice shelves system
isSubjectOf glaciological studies
satellite remote sensing observations
locatedIn Amundsen Sea sector
linked to: Amundsen Sea

Antarctica
Marie Byrd Land
West Antarctica
monitoredBy satellite altimetry
satellite gravimetry
satellite radar interferometry
partOf Amundsen Sea embayment
linked to: Amundsen Sea

Antarctic ice sheet margin
linked to: Antarctic Ice Sheet

Pacific sector of Antarctica
studiedFor contribution to global sea-level budget
ice–ocean interactions
mass balance changes

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Dotson Ice Shelf adjacentTo Getz Ice Shelf
Pine Island Bay near Getz Ice Shelf
Getz Ice Shelf hasLanguageVariant Getz Ice Shelf (English)
linked to: Getz Ice Shelf
Mount Murphy near Getz Ice Shelf
Mount Murphy overlooks eastern Getz Ice Shelf
linked to: Getz Ice Shelf