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by sklipper
Wed Mar 08, 2006 6:21 am
Forum: The Bridge: Discuss an Astronomy Picture of the Day
Topic: That iceberg depicted is not part of an Antarctic ice sheet.
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That iceberg depicted is not part of an Antarctic ice sheet.

That iceberg depicted is not part of an Antarctic ice sheet. It is a free floating mass of ice -- in this case temporarily attached to a field of sea ice -- that once calved off of the tongue of a coastal glacier which in turn, most likely, flowed down an ice stream coming off of a continental ice s...