The San Rafael Glacier, one of the fastest calving glaciers in the world, sits above a fjord in Patagonia. About 10 – 25 meters of the glacier is lost to Keep reading
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Calving Icebergs
The birth of icebergs from a glacier is known as calving. Although it’s extremely common for chunks of ice to break off a glacier’s terminus, the process is not well Keep reading