attached. Their aggregate area is over .

It has been found that of all the ice shelves on Earth, nearly all of them are in Antarctica.

In steady state, about half of Antarctica's ice shelf mass is lost to basal melt and half is lost to calving, but the relative importance of each process varies significantly between ice shelves. In recent decades, Antarctica's ice shelves have been out of balance, as they have lost more mass to basal melt and calving than

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