Posted on 07/06/2017 12:16:11 PM PDT by rktman
Antarctica is set to lose a gigantic chunk of ice as scientists fear a 100-mile crack along the Larsen C ice shelf is about to give way.
They have been observing the progress of the crack for months and the latest reports say there is only three miles of ice left connecting shelf together.
When it breaks apart, the newly formed iceberg will measure around 2,500 square miles - roughly the size of the county of Devon - and contain three trillion tonnes of ice. It will be one of the largest icebergs ever recorded and will drift through the Weddell Sea south of the tip of South America.
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This is totally normal. The continetal ice pushes its way to the ocean because of 10 thousand feet deep ice behind it. It is no longer a glacier but the floating extension of ice from the glacier that is no longer on the continent of Antarctica.
A floating glacier is not stable and will and always will break off and float out to sea.
I’m not concerned for us cause our house sits at 5,200 ft in elevation but I worry about the coastal residents. NOT! ;-)
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