Grounding line

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Term: Grounding line
Definition: The junction between a glacier or ice sheet and ice shelf; the place where ice starts to float. This junction normally occurs over a finite zone, rather than at a line.
GCW IPCC2013
Created 2022.03.08
Last Modified 2023.03.27
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