Sentences with phrase «mile iceberg it calved»

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A 70 - mile - long crack is currently causing Larsen C to calve a Delaware - sized iceberg into the Southern Ocean.

The image shows, at the lower center, a thousand - square - mile iceberg that calved off the huge Larsen Ice Shelf sometime in January or February.

Or the news from Antarctica this past May, when a crack in an ice shelf grew 11 miles in six days, then kept going; the break now has just three miles to go — by the time you read this, it may already have met the open water, where it will drop into the sea one of the biggest icebergs ever, a process known poetically as «calving.»

While «calving» of icebergs is a typical phenomenon, scientists monitoring the rift said a break would leave the 21,000 - square mile Larsen C at its most retreated position.