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Glacier breaks free of Antarctic mass with “explosive force”.

By: Arthur Humby

Underwater seismic monitors detected a powerful event yesterday near the edge of the towering Ross Antarctic ice shelf. Shortly afterwards, New Zealand’s Scott Base monitoring station reported that a large glacier had broken free and was drifting north. Scientists are at a loss to explain the situation, as the area had been thought stable for many months. Ice buildup had been stronger there than in the surrounding regions, and climatologists had predicted the growth to continue.

Today, observers had a difficult time getting a clear view of the massive iceberg due to weather conditions and were baffled by what little they could see. “The southern edge looks blasted away and melted in several places.” reported Neb Sovojic of the monitoring team, “I’ve never seen anything like it.”

But Professor Helen Salanos, head of the climatology department at Auckland University assured that incidents like this are more common than we may know. “The Antarctic has been going about its business for a long time before we even started paying attention. So I’m not surprised we haven’t seen this sort of thing before. But fissure and refreeze patterns indicate that sizable glacial fractures like this have occurred in the past.”

Current speculation is that underwater volcanic activity may be responsible…