Assertion: glacier's water | /r/CapableOf | melt the ice
Facets:
value: more slowly than previously thought
type: MANNER
Source sentences:
text: This seasonal increase in sea ice may be due to colder, fresher water, released from the melting ice shelves, which accumulates in a cool, fresh surface layer and shields surface waters from the warmer, deeper waters that are melting the ice shelves17.
text: Seroussi's coupled model found that water circulation is more restricted in these narrow spaces, and as a result, the water will melt the ice more slowly than previously thought.