Recent expeditions have taken ice samples from green icebergs and ice cores—vertical, cylindrical ice samples reaching down to great depths—from the glacial ice shelves along the Antarctic continent.

近代的探险队已经从绿色冰山和冰核中带回了一些冰块样本，这些样本呈垂直的圆柱状，是沿着南极洲大陆的冰川冰架从极深的位置中取出的。

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Unlike floating ice shelves which have little impact on sea level when they break up, the ice sheet is anchored to bedrock will blow the sea surface.

当浮动冰架破裂时，对海平面的影响很小；而与之不同的是，固定在基岩上的冰盖将会使海面炸毁。

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A variety of animal life rely on these ice shelves.

许多动物的生命依赖于这些冰架。

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This fresh water is ultimately derived from enhanced melting at the base of the Antarctic ice shelves.

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The indirect effect is that it can "pre-condition" the ice shelves that float at the edges of the ice sheet.

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Already, average sea level rise has doubled in a decade due to the destabilisation of the Arctic and Greenland ice shelves.

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