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Larsen C Calves Trillion Ton Iceberg

posted by takyon on Wednesday July 12 2017, @04:15PM   
from the breaking-bad dept.

An Anonymous Coward writes:

A one trillion tonne iceberg – one of the biggest ever recorded - has calved away from the Larsen C Ice Shelf in Antarctica. The calving occurred sometime between Monday 10th July and Wednesday 12th July 2017, when a 5,800 square km section of Larsen C finally broke away. The iceberg, which is likely to be named A68, weighs more than a trillion tonnes. Its volume is twice that of Lake Erie, one of the Great Lakes.

http://www.projectmidas.org/blog/calving/

Also at BBC, PBS, The Guardian, and The Verge.

Complete Calving Coverage:

Antarctic Larsen C Ice Shelf to Calve; Halley VI Research Station Plans Move
Antarctic Ice Rift Close to Calving, After Growing 17km in 6 Days
Delaware-Sized Iceberg Could Break Off of Antarctica at Any Moment
Larsen C Rift Branches as it Comes Within 5 km of Calving

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Original Submission

• Re:i swear Re:i swear (Score: 2) by DeathMonkey on Wednesday July 12 2017, @05:52PM (2 children)

  by DeathMonkey (1380) on Wednesday July 12 2017, @05:52PM (#538198) Journal

  Unless it sinks another Titanic you probably won't hear about it again.

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• Re:i swear Re:i swear (Score: 2, Touché) by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday July 12 2017, @10:06PM (1 child)

  by Anonymous Coward on Wednesday July 12 2017, @10:06PM (#538386)

  How many Titanics has it sunk so far?

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  • Re:i swear (Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Thursday July 13 2017, @03:38PM

    by Anonymous Coward on Thursday July 13 2017, @03:38PM (#538736)

    None, but the chances that it sinks the original titanic are slim.

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