Ice melange, a slushy mixture of snow and ice chunks, can heal large rifts in Antarctica's ice shelves. Researchers found that a thinning of ice melange may have enabled a Delaware-sized iceberg to break off from the Larsen C ice shelf in 2017. A new article has the scientists' analysis of the dynamics behind large iceberg calving events.
from Latest Science News -- ScienceDaily https://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2021/09/210927150521.htm
from Latest Science News -- ScienceDaily https://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2021/09/210927150521.htm
Additional threat to Antarctica’s floating ice shelves
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