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Related: About this forumWhat the Heck Is the Deal with This Weird, Square Iceberg?
By Rafi Letzter, Staff Writer | October 19, 2018 02:52pm ET
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Look at that iceberg. It's beautiful. Perfectly rectangular. An object of near geometric perfection jutting into a polar sea of the usual squiggly, chaotic randomness of the natural world. It calls to mind the monolith from "2001: A Space Odyssey."
But, unlike the monolith from that very weird movie, this iceberg was not deposited on this world by space aliens. Instead, as Kelly Brunt, an ice scientist with NASA and at the University of Maryland, explained, it was likely formed by a process that's fairly common along the edges of icebergs.
"So, here's the deal," Brunt told Live Science. "We get two types of icebergs: We get the type that everyone can envision in their head that sank the Titanic, and they look like prisms or triangles at the surface and you know they have a crazy subsurface. And then you have what are called 'tabular icebergs.'" [In Photos: Huge Icebergs Break Off Antarctica]
Tabular icebergs are wide and flat, and long, like sheet cake, Brunt said. They split from the edges of ice shelves large blocks of ice, connected to land but floating in the water surrounding iced-over places like Antarctica. This one came from the crumbling Larsen C ice shelf on the Antarctic Peninsula.
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https://www.livescience.com/63875-weird-square-iceberg-antarctica.html
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What the Heck Is the Deal with This Weird, Square Iceberg? (Original Post)
Judi Lynn
Oct 2018
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Glamrock
(11,802 posts)1. Sorry, that was me.
Having a BIG Jameson on the rocks. Rough week....
Glamrock
(11,802 posts)2. Well.....
sinkingfeeling
(51,471 posts)3. I have a photo I took last year near there of a huge tabular ice
berg. Mine was taken from a ship, but looked a mile or two in length. I'll have to see if I can find it and post it.
grantcart
(53,061 posts)4. The Overseers of the Universe have had enough of this shot and that is their landing strip
magicarpet
(14,166 posts)5. Are you sure ?
It looks like a WalMart,... and the parking lot has not yet been plowed of last night snow.