The giant chasm on Antarctica's Brunt Ice Shelf has split and created a massive iceberg.
A widening chasm in Antarctica's Brunt Ice Shelf, which forced Britain's Halley Research Station to be moved to safety several years ago, has finally split in two and birthed a huge iceberg more than 20 miles across.
The BAS said that the massive cleft known as Chasm-1, which its scientists have been monitoring for a decade, had finally broken the 490-foot-thick ice shelf in two — thereby creating a massive iceberg, roughly 600 square miles in area, or larger than Los Angeles. BAS scientists will now monitor the new iceberg; it's expected to float west into Antarctica's Weddell Sea.
Antarctic iceThis is the second major iceberg to break off from the Brunt Ice Shelf in two years, but scientists think both events are the result of natural processes, and not anthropogenic climate change.
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