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Parth
2/13/2018 08:57:20 am
A trillion ton (2,200,000,000,000,000 pound) iceberg the size of Delaware broke off from Antarctica.
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Parth
2/14/2018 01:43:21 pm
An iceberg broke off of Antarctica the size of Delaware weighing more than a Blue whale estimated to be 1 trillion tons (2.2 quadrillion pounds) between July 10, 2017 and July 12, 2017. When the iceberg A-68 moved into the Weddell Sea, the water underneath the iceberg saw light for the first time in 120 millenniums (120,000 years). Its area is 2,246 square miles (5,818 square kilometers). It's 623 feet thick but only 98 feet is visible above the ocean surface. Scientists think that the sea levels will go up dramatically, and that might be a problem.
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Justin
2/18/2018 02:09:52 pm
A-68 is 623 feet thick and 100 feet is visible above the ocean surface. In August 2017, It had traveled 3 miles from Larsen C that is breaking apart further. Over the past 2 decades, Antarctica`s west peninsula had suffered substantial losses in three of its ice shelves. A-68 is twice the size of Luxembourg and about 4 times the size of London.
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Mya Johnson #Union
2/22/2018 04:20:54 pm
It is crazy how millions of tons just collapsed from the Larsen-C ice shelf, creating A-68. I wonder what will happen once it gets closer to the New Zealand area?
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