An iceberg broke off of Antarctica this weekend. Can someone give me more information on this, or even a news article?
Thanks
2006-12-31 07:55:28 · 4 answers · asked by dumbxluck27 2 in Environment
Here's the news story on yahoo....
2006-12-31 14:57:52 · answer #1 · answered by Virginia R 1 · 0⤊ 0⤋
A new iceberg about twice the size of Dallas broke off an Antarctic ice shelf, scientists said Friday.
The event is the latest in a series of breakups of the Larsen B ice shelf, which until recent years had endured several millennia without such major change. The breakup has coincided with warmer temperatures. The new iceberg is catalogued as A-53.
The latest event is separate from one in January in which the world's largest known iceberg ran aground in the Antarctic, snuggling up to a glacier known as the Drygalski Ice Tongue.
The new iceberg is about 16 by 35 nautical miles, according to the National Ice Center in Suitland, Md., which has monitored it with satellite images from the Canadian Space Agency. It broke off on Jan. 31.
"Some icebergs of similar size that have broken off from the Larsen Ice Shelf have remained in the area for a while, while others have journeyed north," said Sean Helfrich, a NOAA meteorologist at the National Ice Center. "A-53 likely will not leave the Weddell Sea this year, and may even break off into additional icebergs sometime this year."
Iceberg names are derived from the Antarctic quadrant where they are first sighted. A-53 is the 53rd iceberg the NIC has spotted in Antarctica in quadrant A, which includes the Bellinghausen/Weddell Sea region.
basically sea levels are going to raise and its going to be noticable in a decade
2006-12-31 16:00:48 · answer #2 · answered by ceesteris 6 · 0⤊ 0⤋
It was actually off the Ellsemore Shelf.. and it was in Canadian Arctic.. not Antarctica..
What happened last week has shocked and startled scientists now.. because no one expected such a massive block of ice to crack and dislodge itself then float away..
The block of ice had been eroded from uderneath.. and showed no signs of cracking.. so it caught scientists off guard who are now pondering which berg will break off next.. scientists had no idea.. the iceberg that broke off.. was over 25kilometers long!!! this is massive and the size of a small town or city.. it would take hours to walk from one end of it to the other.. and it is hundreds of meters tall at its peak..
2007-01-01 09:25:48 · answer #3 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
Apparently it is the largest iceberg to break off in 30 years, and that icebergs that size break off every so often. Not a big deal.
2006-12-31 16:03:28 · answer #4 · answered by Clown Knows 7 · 0⤊ 1⤋