Figure 9-33: R I V U X G
A Melting Antarctic Ice Shelf Global warming caused the Larsen B ice shelf to break up in early 2002. This ice shelf, which was about the size of Rhode Island, is thought to have been part of the Antarctic coast for the past 12,000 years.
A Melting Antarctic Ice Shelf Global warming caused the Larsen B ice shelf to break up in early 2002. This ice shelf, which was about the size of Rhode Island, is thought to have been part of the Antarctic coast for the past 12,000 years.
(NASA/GSFC/LaRC/JPL, MIST Team)