Where glaciers or ice sheets meet the ocean, calving fronts form towering, unstable cliffs of ice. These dynamic boundaries periodically break off, or calve, icebergs into the sea. Scientists monitor them to study ice loss and sea-level rise, while navigators track them for safe shipping routes through polar waters.
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