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Big Chunk of Ice Breaks Off of Greenland Glacier (one-eighth the size of Manhattan)
LiveScience.com ^
| 7/12/10
Posted on 07/12/2010 11:15:43 AM PDT by NormsRevenge
A huge chunk of ice about one-eighth the size of Manhattan has broken off of Greenland's Jakobshavn Isbrae glacier, NASA scientists report.
A 2.7-square-mile (7-square-kilometer) section of the glacier broke up on July 6 and 7 and was spotted in NASA satellite images.
Greenland's ice sheet, which is 2 miles (3.2 km) thick and covers an area about the size of Mexico, has been losing ice mass at an accelerating rate over the last decade. The ice sheet discharges much of its ice through fast moving glaciers that flow into the sea, with large chunks breaking off into the ocean.
The breakup last week pushed the calving front – where the ice sheet meets the ocean – back nearly a mile (1.5 km) in one day. The front is now farther inland than at any time previously observed.
(Excerpt) Read more at livescience.com ...
TOPICS: Culture/Society; Miscellaneous
KEYWORDS: chunk; glacier; greenland; ice
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To: NormsRevenge
Now ya see it,
Now Ya don't.
Satellite images of a breakup of Greenland's Jakobshavn Isbrae glacier.
Credit: NASA/DigitalGlobe
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posted on
07/12/2010 11:17:15 AM PDT
by
NormsRevenge
(Semper Fi ... Godspeed .. Monthly Donor Onboard)
To: NormsRevenge
The front is now farther inland than at any time previously observed. Even by the Vikings?
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posted on
07/12/2010 11:17:47 AM PDT
by
Yo-Yo
(Is the /sarc tag really necessary?)
To: NormsRevenge
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posted on
07/12/2010 11:18:35 AM PDT
by
fieldmarshaldj
(~"This is what happens when you find a stranger in the Amber Lamps !"~~)
To: NormsRevenge
So more ice melts and more land is made available....
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posted on
07/12/2010 11:19:06 AM PDT
by
Dallas59
(President Robert Gibbs 2009-2013)
To: NormsRevenge
More proof that humans are responsible for everything that occurs in nature.
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posted on
07/12/2010 11:19:26 AM PDT
by
GSWarrior
(Be wary of all politicians..... especially ones that you admire.)
To: NormsRevenge
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posted on
07/12/2010 11:19:47 AM PDT
by
NMEwithin
To: NormsRevenge
OH NO....it’s Global DE-ICING! Run for your lives.
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posted on
07/12/2010 11:20:07 AM PDT
by
FrankR
( If we don't stand up to tyranny, the tyrants win, and we're enslaved.)
To: NormsRevenge
Why is NASA wasting their time on this? Shouldn't they be reaching out to mooslims.
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posted on
07/12/2010 11:20:35 AM PDT
by
ILS21R
(A 200 year supply of oil... in Alaska....right now)
To: NormsRevenge
July 6 and 7 I have a theory.....Summer?
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posted on
07/12/2010 11:21:36 AM PDT
by
Onelifetogive
(I never make the mistake of arguing with people for whose opinions I have no respect.)
To: NormsRevenge
Meanwhile, a brand-new luxury cruise ship built with technology designed to make it unsinkable has departed Southampton, England, for New York City in an attempt to set the record for an Atlantic crossing.
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posted on
07/12/2010 11:23:44 AM PDT
by
nhoward14
(I'm starting The 595 Club... A discount from 700)
To: NormsRevenge
I thought electing Obama was the day the seas began to receed? He’s had 19 months...why didn’t he prevent this?????
To: NormsRevenge
Wonder if the “Crazed Sex Poodle” will come out of hiding about this?
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posted on
07/12/2010 11:24:43 AM PDT
by
The Cajun
(Mind numbed robot , ditto-head, Hannitized, Levinite)
To: Personal Responsibility
It’s a normal event in the life of ice sheets...Geez....
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posted on
07/12/2010 11:27:21 AM PDT
by
Sacajaweau
(What)
To: NormsRevenge
To: NormsRevenge
"The front is now farther inland than at any time previously observed." Except of course, when the Norsemen were farming there in GREENland 900 years ago.
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posted on
07/12/2010 11:29:47 AM PDT
by
cookcounty
("Today's White House reporters seem one ball short of a ping pong scrimmage.")
To: NormsRevenge
Quick! Someone chop of Manhattan and let’s see if we can do an even trade!
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posted on
07/12/2010 11:30:10 AM PDT
by
VanDeKoik
(Iran doesnt have a 2nd admendment. Ya see how that turned out?)
To: NormsRevenge
From the photo, it looks like major changes in the topography of the surrounding area as well. I wonder why.
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posted on
07/12/2010 11:31:39 AM PDT
by
cookcounty
("Today's White House reporters seem one ball short of a ping pong scrimmage.")
To: NormsRevenge
Its not really all that large. Plenty of much larger peices have broken off over the years.
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posted on
07/12/2010 11:32:00 AM PDT
by
cripplecreek
(Remember the River Raisin! (look it up))
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