The biggest iceberg was eaten by the waves
2006/10/05 Rementeria Argote, Nagore - Elhuyar Zientziaren Komunikazioa
The iceberg B-15A is known for its haphazard life. Born in March 2005, his mother, B-15, hit the end of Antarctica's Drygalsky ice and fell. The biggest iceberg of that time was the B-15, and when the witness was reduced it was his daughter B-15A.
Despite its large size (one hundred kilometers long and thirty wide), the B-15 did not last long. It was destroyed in October 2005. And now they have discovered how that happened. Apparently, the influence of a storm in the Pacific reached the Antarctic area, causing a large shellfish and first cracking the B-15A and then crushing it.
Researchers at the University of Chicago discover what happened to that Iceberg. In fact, they were investigating the low-frequency seismic waves of the iceberg, but they realized that the sensors had also received other waves. The data obtained were contrasted with those recorded by the sea buoys, which saw that these waves were the result of a storm that took place thousands of kilometers from the Pacific. That storm caused seafood in the B-15A area. And the date of the shellfish by storm coincides with that of the destruction of the B-15A.
Photo: J. Schmaltz, NASA.
