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The collapse of Larsen B, showing the diminishing extent of the shelf from 1998 to 2002. From 31 January 2002 to March 2002 the Larsen B sector partially collapsed and parts broke up, 3,250 km 2 (1,250 sq mi) of ice 220 m (720 ft) thick, an area comparable to the US state of Rhode Island . [ 13 ]
Iceberg A-68 on 20 July 2017 The drift of Iceberg A-68A from 1 May 2018 to 26 August 2018. Iceberg A-68 was a giant tabular iceberg adrift in the South Atlantic, having calved from Antarctica's Larsen C ice shelf in July 2017.
When the A-68 iceberg calved from the Larsen C ice shelf it weighed up to a trillion tonnes, and measured 2,300 square miles, a quarter of the size of Wales. World’s biggest iceberg ‘is about ...
This is a list of Antarctic ice shelves.. An image of Antarctica differentiating its landmass (dark grey) from its ice shelves (minimum extent, light grey, and maximum extent, white) Edge of Ekstrom Ice Shelf
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Some named Antarctic iceshelves. Ice shelf extending approximately 6 miles into the Antarctic Sound from Joinville Island. An ice shelf is "a floating slab of ice originating from land of considerable thickness extending from the coast (usually of great horizontal extent with a very gently sloping surface), resulting from the flow of ice sheets, initially formed by the accumulation of snow ...
The collapse of the 463-square-mile Glenzer Conger ice shelf, which occurred last week, came as temperatures rose in the eastern section of Antarctica by as much as 70 degrees Fahrenheit above normal.
This large ice shelf, located in the Weddell Sea, extending along the east coast of Antarctic Peninsula, consists of three segments, two of which have calved. In January 1995, the Larsen A Ice Shelf containing 3,250 km 2 (1,250 sq mi) of ice 200 m (660 ft) thick calved and disintegrated. Then the Larsen B Ice Shelf calved and disintegrated in ...