Sentences with phrase «recently calved»

This week, a large iceberg that recently calved from West Antarctica's Pine Island Glacier rapidly and unexpectedly disintegrated as it drifted away from the frozen continent.

Trace / Erase Wax and aluminum growler casts Created from ice sourced from the waters of Prince William Sound, Alaska, theses sculptures were cast from melting «growlers» - ice recently calved from tidewater glaciers.

In fall - calving herds, heavy bred cows and recently calved cows seem to be at greatest risk of death or abortion.

Pine Island Glacier is buttressed by a large, floating ice shelf, which helps to stabilise the glacier, but this ice shelf is itself thinning and recently calved a huge iceberg.

The recently calved iceberg may be 720 km2, but that's the least of this ice stream's worries.

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A giant rift, part of a natural calving process, has recently formed on the ice shelf.

One MODIS animation of ice calving from a glacier in Antarctica actually made it into the Washington Post recently.

An important event that occurred in this region recently was the calving of the Petermann Glacier, which took place 3 - 5 August 2010 (see Figures 3a and 3b).