Ice sheet and Ice shelf

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Difference between Ice sheet and Ice shelf

Ice sheet vs. Ice shelf

An ice sheet is a mass of glacier ice that covers surrounding terrain and is greater than, this is also known as continental glacier. An ice shelf is a thick floating platform of ice that forms where a glacier or ice sheet flows down to a coastline and onto the ocean surface.

Similarities between Ice sheet and Ice shelf

Ice sheet and Ice shelf have 5 things in common (in Unionpedia): Filchner-Ronne Ice Shelf, Glacier, Global warming, Greenland, Ross Ice Shelf.

Filchner-Ronne Ice Shelf

The Filchner-Ronne Ice Shelf, also known as Ronne-Filchner Ice Shelf, is an Antarctic ice shelf bordering the Weddell Sea.

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Glacier

A glacier is a persistent body of dense ice that is constantly moving under its own weight; it forms where the accumulation of snow exceeds its ablation (melting and sublimation) over many years, often centuries.

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Global warming

Global warming, also referred to as climate change, is the observed century-scale rise in the average temperature of the Earth's climate system and its related effects.

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Greenland

Greenland (Kalaallit Nunaat,; Grønland) is an autonomous constituent country within the Kingdom of Denmark between the Arctic and Atlantic Oceans, east of the Canadian Arctic Archipelago.

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Ross Ice Shelf

The Ross Ice Shelf is the largest ice shelf of Antarctica (as of 2013 an area of roughly and about across: about the size of France).

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The list above answers the following questions

What Ice sheet and Ice shelf have in common
What are the similarities between Ice sheet and Ice shelf

Ice sheet and Ice shelf Comparison

Ice sheet has 38 relations, while Ice shelf has 38. As they have in common 5, the Jaccard index is 6.58% = 5 / (38 + 38).

References

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