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Re: an-iceberg-the-size-of-delaware-is-about-to-break-off-of-antarctica

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Hägar <hsahm@yahoo.com> wrote:

>The Antarctic has been "calving" ice sheets since time
>immemorial.  When glaciers, a common phenomena in
>the Antarctic, spill out into the sea, they eventually break
>off from the progenitor ice mass, sort of like bending a
>beer can tab to and fro, until it breaks off.  It is nature's
>way of getting rid of the grown up children.  The floes,
>or ice bergs, as they are otherwise known, then go on
>hunting trip for such unsinkable behemoths as the Titanic. 

Since the Antarctic ice stabilizes as very large sheets, the resulting
icebergs are wildly different from the Greenland things that sank the
Titanic.
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an-iceberg-the-size-of-delaware-is-about-to-break-off-of-antarctica The Starmaker <starmaker@ix.netcom.com> - 2017-07-06 11:16 -0700
  Re: an-iceberg-the-size-of-delaware-is-about-to-break-off-of-antarctica The Starmaker <starmaker@ix.netcom.com> - 2017-07-06 11:21 -0700
  Re: an-iceberg-the-size-of-delaware-is-about-to-break-off-of-antarctica Hägar <hsahm@yahoo.com> - 2017-07-06 11:43 -0700
    Re: an-iceberg-the-size-of-delaware-is-about-to-break-off-of-antarctica The Starmaker <starmaker@ix.netcom.com> - 2017-07-06 13:36 -0700
    Re: an-iceberg-the-size-of-delaware-is-about-to-break-off-of-antarctica Greg Goss <gossg@gossg.org> - 2017-07-09 13:35 -0600
  Re: an-iceberg-the-size-of-delaware-is-about-to-break-off-of-antarctica "reber G=emc^2" <herbertglazier0@gmail.com> - 2017-07-06 15:03 -0700
    Re: an-iceberg-the-size-of-delaware-is-about-to-break-off-of-antarctica "hanson" <hanson@quick.net> - 2017-07-06 15:20 -0700
    Re: an-iceberg-the-size-of-delaware-is-about-to-break-off-of-antarctica benj <benj@nobody.net> - 2017-07-06 21:44 -0400
    Re: an-iceberg-the-size-of-delaware-is-about-to-break-off-of-antarctica "reber G=emc^2" <herbertglazier0@gmail.com> - 2017-07-07 14:31 -0700
      Re: an-iceberg-the-size-of-delaware-is-about-to-break-off-of-antarctica "hanson" <hanson@quick.net> - 2017-07-07 19:34 -0700
      Re: an-iceberg-the-size-of-delaware-is-about-to-break-off-of-antarctica "reber G=emc^2" <herbertglazier0@gmail.com> - 2017-07-14 10:46 -0700
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