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Icebergs

Posted inResearch Spotlights

Seismic Clues Reveal the Mechanisms Behind Iceberg Calving

by L. Strelich 16 February 20168 December 2022

Scientists combine models and video footage of iceberg calving to analyze the potential of seismology to unravel physical processes behind the breakup of ice sheets.

Posted inNews

Icebergs Fertilize Southern Ocean, Sequester Carbon

JoAnna Wendel, freelance science writer and illustrator by JoAnna Wendel 15 January 201617 August 2022

Huge, drifting ice rafts (the white spot on the satellite image below ) shed minerals as they melt, painting trails of nutrients, teeming phytoplankton, and chlorophyll across hundreds of kilometers of ocean.

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