Massive Iceberg Crashes Into Island, Splits in Two

[madmom]

Source: AOL Inc.

(Sept. 11) -- The largest Arctic iceberg in nearly half a century has split into two pieces after crashing into a rocky island west of Greenland.

The iceberg – actually a massive floating ice island four times the size of Manhattan – broke off Greenland's Petermann Glacier last month. It was the largest such iceberg since 1962, with a surface area of 100 square miles and a thickness of about half the height of the Empire State Building.

After it broke off from Greenland, the ice island started floating slowly down the Nares Strait, a narrow waterway between Greenland and Canada. At the time, scientists thought it might get stuck in the strait, possibly blocking key shipping routes.
But satellite images show that it broke into two pieces after repeatedly smashing into Joe Island, a small rocky outcrop in the Nares Strait.

"In the satellite imagery, you can hardly see the island because it's so much smaller than the ice island, but it's there; it's a piece of rock," Andreas Muenchow, an associate professor at the University of Delaware who's been doing research in the Nares Strait, told CNN. "The forces of the ocean currents and the winds wiggling it on and off the island were too much."

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[Barack_America]

1. Only paper beats rock. nt

[n2doc]

2. or plastic n/t

[dave29]

6. classic.

:)

[BadgerKid]

12. Spock vaporizes rock ;)

[keep_it_real]

3. Power to the Rock

[MilesColtrane]

4. "it broke into two pieces after repeatedly smashing into Joe Island"

Joe Island doesn't stand for that shit.

[nyy1998]

8. Haha, don't mess with Joe Island

[alfredo]

5. image

[Downwinder]

7. Wasn't there a project ot one time to tow ice bergs to Saudi Arabia?

This looks like a prime opportunity.

[defendandprotect]

9. Overall -- not good news!

[truthisfreedom]

10. Yeah, now there's two or more.

[LawnKorn]

13. Greenland is shedding its ice - global warming marches on

Sea level is projected to make a dramatic rise before the end of the century.

[RATM435]

11. Teabagistan breaks in two

so now there is a north and south teabagistan.