| Re: Now We've Done It - Canada's Arctic ice shelves break apart, drift away |
Subject: Re: Now We've Done It - Canada's Arctic ice shelves break apart, drift away by Slalom4me on 2008/9/5 17:48:59 An ice shelf is an extension of a land-based glacier reaching out over an area of water. In the case of the Ward Hunt Ice Shelf in the arctic, it extends off from the coast of Ellesmere Island. Read more here: The Calving of the Ward Hunt Ice Shelf  Background map courtesy of The National Atlas of Canada 5th Edition. Ditto for ice shelves in the antarctic, such as Larsen A,B & C. The speed of the break ups has been very unsettling for shelf watchers who have acknowledged that earlier models predicting far slower rates of decline failed to take into consideration several aspects that are now recognized to accelerate the progress of collapse. . |
