The Brunt Ice Shelf glacier located in Antarctica hosted a major rupture. The glacier, with an area of more than 1,500 square kilometers, broke away from the mainland and is expected to melt into the ocean.
Due to global warming, every year billions of tons the glacier is melting. With the increasing temperatures, huge chunks of ice in the glaciers break off and mix into the ocean.
The Brunt Ice Shelf glacier on the Antarctic coast recently collapsed from a piece almost 2 times the size of Yalova. Total 256 billion tons the glacier broke off from its main part.
Breaking moments of the glacier with a surface area of 1,550 kilometers:
According to the statement shared by the British Antarctic Survey, the glacier had a thickness of 150 meters. If the area of the broken piece is 1,550 kilometerssquare was. The rupture of the glacier took place on 22 January between 22:00 and 23:00 CEST.
So why did the piece break?
The breakouts in Brunt Ice Shelf have actually been going on for a long time. The region of the last rupture Chasm-1has now become a breaking point and has been shrinking for over a decade. The last rupture occurred in the region in recent years. second largest breakout was recorded as.
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Source :
https://www.bas.ac.uk/media-post/brunt-ice-shelf-in-antarctica-calves-giant-iceberg/