The largest iceberg in the world shattered

Researchers have noticed that the world's largest iceberg has split in two. As noted by the European

space agency (ESA), exact reasonThe splits are not yet clear, but perhaps this was influenced by the fact that a block of ice was floating in shallow water several tens of kilometers from the coastline of South Georgia.

Scientists have also noted that in the past severaldays the iceberg rotated clockwise, moving one of its ends in shallow water. In this area, the seabed is only 200 m deep, so the iceberg could hit the ocean floor. Therefore, the researchers assumed that the iceberg could be broken.

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Iceberg A-68 broke from the ice shelfLarsen in July 2017. Then its area was 5.8 thousand square meters. km is twice the area of ​​Moscow. Its size was 175 km by 50 km, the average thickness was 190 m, and the mass was 1 trillion tons. The breakaway of the A-68 reduced the total area of ​​the Larsen C ice shelf by 12%.

Now the size of the glacier has decreased sincea piece of about 175 sq. km. Scientists consider this to be the beginning of the end of the glacier - A-68 will gradually begin to split into smaller pieces. According to Swansea University researcher Adrian Luckman, the glacier will break down for years.

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