To: Ernest_at_the_Beach
The glacier is doing what it has been doing for hundreds of thousands of years and the Leftists go Chicken Little!
5 posted on
09/06/2011 9:26:54 AM PDT by
Jack Hydrazine
(It's the end of the world as we know it and I feel fine!)
To: Jack Hydrazine
A glacier is on land. When it extends out into the sea it is an ice shelf. What broke off is part of the ice shelf.
I shelfs are inherently unstable and the terminal end of the shelf always breaks off into the sea. It is then called an iceberg.
14 posted on
09/06/2011 10:01:15 AM PDT by
cpdiii
(Deckhand, Roughneck, Mud Man, Geologist, Pilot, Pharmacist. THE CONSTITUTION IS WORTH DYING FOR!)
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