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More glacier cracking

OHIO. This image provided by the Byrd Polar Research Center, Columbus, Ohio shows a growing giant crack and an 11-square-mile chunk of i...

Por Redacción Digital La Estrella

Actualizado 08/09/2008 02:00

Creado 08/09/2008 02:00

OHIO. This image provided by the Byrd Polar Research Center, Columbus, Ohio shows a growing giant crack and an 11-square-mile chunk of ice hemorrhaging off a prominent glacier in northern Greenland. The crack is seven miles long and about half a mile wide. It is about half the width of the 500 square mile floating part of the glacier. If the cracking continues, the floating part could shrink.