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Ocean currents break up a tabular iceberg

In December 2020, giant tabular iceberg A68a (surface area 3900 km(2)) broke up in open ocean much deeper than its keel, indicating that the breakage was not immediately caused by collision with the seafloor. Giant icebergs with lengths exceeding 18.5 km account for most of the calved ice mass from...

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Autores principales: Huth, Alex, Adcroft, Alistair, Sergienko, Olga, Khan, Nuzhat
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: American Association for the Advancement of Science 2022
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC9581483/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/36260681
http://dx.doi.org/10.1126/sciadv.abq6974