East Antarctic Ice Shelf Weakening
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•An unexpected ice collapse hints at worrying changes on the Antarctic coast
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East Antarctica’s Conger ice shelf broke apart seemingly unprovoked a couple of years ago .
A powerful storm passed along the coast during that time, tilting the sea surface up and down a fraction of a degree.
Powerful winds then pried the fragments apart.
The collapse won’t noticeably impact sea level because the glaciers it had stabilized are small.
“This sector of the East Antarctic Ice Sheet has been very stable,” Morlighem says. Some computer simulations predicted that East Antarctica might even gain some mass over the next century . But if Denman and its neighbors destabilize, “then that completely changes the picture.”.
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