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Since the ice is already afloat, melting it won't have any impression on ocean levels by Archimedes' principle, so does it really matter if the antarctic ice shelf melts? Why do they always write-up it in the news when another chunk melts off -...

Glaciers custom when snow falls, but doesn’t melt. Over time, the weight and pressure from above turns the snow into ice. Glaciers are rivers of ice; they formula at higher elevations and flow downhill in response to gravity.

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2008-07-10 14:32:47 by anonymous dude

Satellite imagery from the National Snow and Ice Data Center at the University of Colorado at Boulder reveals that a 13680 square kilometer (5282 ...

Obviously the ice shelf is now being held up by a very thin strip of ice. If it were to break off what sort of effect would it have on the earth, if any?

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http://www.timesonline.co.uk/tol/news/en vironment/article3621685.ece

2009-01-26 06:51:28 by xxskadaddlexx

Now, this is not momentary, but the Wilkins ice bridge just gave way and it held back the Wilkins Ice Shelf. It's only a matter of interval, according to the British Antarctic Survey.

http://www.antarctica.ac.uk/about_bas/ne...

I'm not unfaltering how many, but it will be easier for Antarctic glacier melt to flow into the ocean now that the Wilkins ice shelf is no longer connected to the Antarctic continent via the ice connect.

2009-04-21 12:55:07 by johnnyrockets16

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