Sentences with phrase «shelf broke away»

This week, the Larsen C ice shelf broke away from Antarctica, setting a one trillion ton iceberg afloat in the Wedell Sea.

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Now that the close to 2,240 square - mile (5,800 square kilometers) chunk of ice has broken away, the Larsen C shelf area has shrunk by approximately 10 percent.

The iceberg, which is likely to be named A68, was already floating before it broke away so there is no immediate impact on sea levels, but the calving has left the Larsen C ice shelf reduced in area by more than 12 percent.

After large icebergs broke away from nearby ice shelves in recent decades, they collapsed and the land ice they were buttressing tumbled into the sea.

Here on Earth, but also in remote and unfamiliar territory, an iceberg the size of Delaware broke away from the fourth largest ice shelf in Antarctica, earning our No. 3 spotand offering scientists a chance to study newly forming ecosystems.

Sometimes the changes are visible and dramatic — as when a Manhattan - sized iceberg breaks away from an ice shelf.

Scientists have watched as a crack in the Antarctic Peninsula's Larsen C ice shelf has grown across the shelf, allowing a massive amount of ice to break away.

I wanted to create something that could exist outside of time, that could be on a shelf in 1993 or»83 or»75 next to «Breaking Away» or «Over the Edge.»

A Manhattan - size Arctic ice shelf that broke away from Canada's Ellesmere Island in August 2005 has broken in half, satellite pictures reveal.

Sat on my shelf for a couple of years; I am through the first third now... (i) The story of Keeling breaking away from the Christmas party with a grad student to pack the crate for the analyzer bound to the South Pole was amusing, and (ii), weaving the processes of the biosphere to thte tangibles of metric proces works to trigger thought.

I helped stock shelves and put away all damaged and broken merchandise.