Sunday 17 August 2014

Megascale icebergs run aground

ICE WORLD
Megascale icebergs run aground
Bremerhaven, Germany (SPX) Aug 12, 2014 - Scientists from the Alfred Wegener Institute, Helmholtz Centre for Polar and Marine Research (AWI), have found between Greenland and Spitsbergen the scours left behind on the sea bed by gigantic icebergs. The five lineaments, at a depth of 1,200 metres, are the lowest-lying iceberg scours yet to be found on the Arctic sea floor. This finding provides new understanding of the dynamics of th ... more


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