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a glacier giving birth to an iceberg, one thunderous white-knuckle crack at a time.
means the process by which chunks of ice break off the edge of a glacier or ice shelf and fall into the sea, becoming icebergs.
from from the old sense of calve meaning to give birth, applied to ice since the 1800s because a glacier shedding a berg looked like a cow dropping a calf.
sound travels farcalving booms can be heard miles away
biggest culpritwarmer ocean water melts glaciers from below first
instant sea riselarge calving events raise local water levels visibly
tourist dangerresulting waves have capsized sightseeing boats
for instance
jakobshavn glacier — greenland glacier that calves some of the fastest ice on earth
larsen c — antarctic shelf that calved a trillion-ton iceberg in 2017
perito moreno — argentina glacier where tourists watch scheduled ice collapses
a68 iceberg — chunk nearly the size of delaware, drifted for years