A very large crack is forming in the Larsen C Ice Shelf on the Antarctic Peninsula. The crack isĀ up to 1,500 feet wide and will most likely generateĀ one of the largest icebergs on record. Only 6.4 miles of ice are keeping the ice sheet from calving off an iceberg that is basically the size of…
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First Intact Samples Collected From An Antarctic Subglacial Lake
The Whillans Ice Stream Subglacial Access Research Drilling (WISSARD) field team drilled through 800 m of ice and intersected Subglacial Lake Whillans on 28 January 2013 at 0500 h. The team sampled mud and water from the floor of the subglacial lake, making this the first time that clean whole samples have been recovered from…