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Satellite Images Show Breakups at Two of Greenlands Largest Glaciers; Major New Crack

Posted on August 22, 2008

The recent loss of 29 km2 of glacier. If the Petermann glacier breaks up back to the upstream crack, the loss would be as much as an additional 160 km2 (60 mi2). Click to enlarge. Credit: Byrd Polar Research Center, OSU. Ohio State University (OSU) researchers monitoring daily satellite images of Greenland's glaciers have discovered break-ups at the Petermann and Jakobshavn glaciers's two of the country's largest in the last month. They expect that part of what is the Northern hemisphere's longest floating glacier will continue to disintegrate within the next year.Petermann has a floating ...

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