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Ice Bridge Holding Antarctic Shelf in Place Shatters
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Media | Newspaper - New York Times |
News Date | Saturday, April 4, 2009 03:00:00 PM UTC0:0 |
Description | By REUTERS
Published: April 4, 2009
OSLO (Reuters) — An ice bridge holding a vast Antarctic ice shelf in place has shattered and may herald a wider collapse caused by global warming, a scientist said Saturday.
“It’s amazing how the ice has ruptured,” said David Vaughan, a glaciologist with the British Antarctic Survey. “Two days ago it was intact,” he said, referring to a satellite image of the Wilkins ice shelf.
The satellite picture, by the European Space Agency, showed that a strip of ice about 25 miles long that is believed to pin the ice shelf in place had snapped.
The loss of the ice bridge could mean a wider breakup of the ice shelf, which is about the size of Connecticut. |
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