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  • Alaskan storm cracks iceberg in Antarctica: study (waves traveled 8300 miles to destroy iceberg)

    10/02/2006 4:48:49 PM PDT · by NormsRevenge · 40 replies · 1,087+ views
    Reuters on Yahoo ^ | 10/2/06 | Reuters
    WASHINGTON (Reuters) - A bad storm in Alaska last October generated an ocean swell that broke apart a giant iceberg near Antarctica six days later, U.S. researchers reported on Monday. The waves traveled 8,300 miles to destroy the iceberg, said Douglas MacAyeal of the University of Chicago and Emile Okal at Northwestern University. Writing in the journal Geophysical Research Letters, they said their study shows how weather in one region can affect events far away. "One of the things we're debating in the world right now is whether global warming might increase the storminess in the oceans," MacAyeal said in...
  • Wild Iceberg Tears up Antarctica (Still on the move)

    05/18/2005 6:36:54 AM PDT · by Sax · 34 replies · 1,314+ views
    Yahoo - LiveScience.com ^ | 05/18/05 | Robert Roy Britt
    A huge wandering iceberg is tearing up the Antarctic like a slow-moving bull in a frozen China shop. The roaving destructor, named B-15A, slammed into the Drygalski ice tongue a month ago and broke off at least two city-sized chunks. Now it is poised to strike another feature sticking out from the continent. At 71 miles (115 kilometers) long, B-15A is the largest free-floating object in the world. It is expected to lumber into the Aviator Glacier any day now, scientists with the European Space Agency said Tuesday. The researchers released a satellite image taken May 16. Aviator was discovered...