Assertion: glacier | /r/CapableOf | reach the sea
Facets:
value: no longer
type: TEMPORAL
Source sentences:
text: In the Arctic Ocean off northwestern Ellesmere Island there is an area of floating shelf ice that may at one time have been joined by glaciers, but the glaciers no longer reach the sea.
text: West Antarctica has three major drainage basins where glaciers reach the ocean: the Ross Sea Embayment, the Weddell Sea Embayment, and the Amundsen Sea Embayment.
text: Ice shelves form when glaciers reach the sea and begin to float.
text: If a glacier reaches the sea without melting, it can float intact as a glacier tongue.
text: And icebergs – large masses of ice floating in water (typically created when glaciers reach the sea) – can be dangerous if struck by a ship when underway.
text: For example, if it turned out that the terrain beneath the glaciers sloped upward inland of the grounding line—the point where glaciers reach the ocean and begin floating over sea water, forming an ice shelf—and featured ridges that provided friction, this configuration would slow down the flow and loss of ice.