Comments on: For icebergs, breaking up can be easy to do http://earthobservatory.nasa.gov/blogs/earthmatters/2012/02/13/for-icebergs-breaking-up-can-be-easy-to-do/?src=earthmatters-rss Earth is an amazing planet, and the one that matters most to us. Let’s have a conversation about it. Wed, 01 May 2013 01:19:52 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.5.1 By: Pooja Apugol http://earthobservatory.nasa.gov/blogs/earthmatters/2012/02/13/for-icebergs-breaking-up-can-be-easy-to-do/#comment-10699 Pooja Apugol Tue, 21 Feb 2012 08:47:29 +0000 http://earthobservatory.nasa.gov/blogs/earthmatters/?p=830#comment-10699 The explanation is very well written. The pictorial discription is great

]]> By: KNUT FORSGREN http://earthobservatory.nasa.gov/blogs/earthmatters/2012/02/13/for-icebergs-breaking-up-can-be-easy-to-do/#comment-10696 KNUT FORSGREN Wed, 15 Feb 2012 16:28:20 +0000 http://earthobservatory.nasa.gov/blogs/earthmatters/?p=830#comment-10696 Interesting and informative

]]> By: Mike http://earthobservatory.nasa.gov/blogs/earthmatters/2012/02/13/for-icebergs-breaking-up-can-be-easy-to-do/#comment-10695 Mike Tue, 14 Feb 2012 07:17:35 +0000 http://earthobservatory.nasa.gov/blogs/earthmatters/?p=830#comment-10695 Please don’t forget if calving produces a big wave outwards, the displaced water will rebound like ripples in a pond, but especially focused between the parts of the iceberg that have broken apart, forcing them back together. That will put more stress in that area and tend to promote further break ups. In clips of glaciers calving a small slip often seems to start something much bigger, perhaps vibrations cause weaknesses to fracture further into the main body of the ice?

Mike

]]> By: Andrey http://earthobservatory.nasa.gov/blogs/earthmatters/2012/02/13/for-icebergs-breaking-up-can-be-easy-to-do/#comment-10693 Andrey Mon, 13 Feb 2012 20:40:09 +0000 http://earthobservatory.nasa.gov/blogs/earthmatters/?p=830#comment-10693 This is rather nice and informative article. I enjoyed reading it. Thank you for posting it here.

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