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a glacier giving birth to an iceberg, gravity officiating the ceremony.
means the sudden breaking away of ice chunks from a glacier's edge, cliff face, or ice shelf into water.
from from the old sense of calve meaning to give birth, applied to icebergs since the 1800s as sailors watched glaciers seemingly deliver babies of ice into the sea.
sound firstcalving often booms like thunder before ice hits water
rising causewarmer ocean water melting glacier undersides speeds up calving
deadly waveslarge calving events can trigger tsunamis near coastlines
cow term toosame word describes actual cows giving birth