/geography/ en /geography/2012/12/07/massive-crevasses-and-bendable-ice-affect-stability-antarctic-ice-shelf <span>Massive crevasses and bendable ice affect stability of Antarctic ice shelf</span> <span><span>Anonymous (not verified)</span></span> <span><time datetime="2012-12-07T09:31:35-07:00" title="Friday, December 7, 2012 - 09:31">Fri, 12/07/2012 - 09:31</time> </span> <div role="contentinfo" class="container ucb-article-categories" itemprop="about"> <span class="visually-hidden">Categories:</span> <div class="ucb-article-category-icon" aria-hidden="true"> <i class="fa-solid fa-folder-open"></i> </div> <a href="/geography/taxonomy/term/60"> News </a> <a href="/geography/taxonomy/term/64"> Research </a> </div> <div role="contentinfo" class="container ucb-article-tags" itemprop="keywords"> <span class="visually-hidden">Tags:</span> <div class="ucb-article-tag-icon" aria-hidden="true"> <i class="fa-solid fa-tags"></i> </div> <a href="/geography/taxonomy/term/460" hreflang="en">Daniel McGrath</a> <a href="/geography/taxonomy/term/462" hreflang="en">Konrad Steffen</a> <a href="/geography/taxonomy/term/130" hreflang="en">Waleed Abdalati</a> </div> <div class="ucb-article-content ucb-striped-content"> <div class="container"> <div class="paragraph paragraph--type--article-content paragraph--view-mode--default 3"> <div class="ucb-article-row-subrow row"> <div class="ucb-article-text col-lg d-flex align-items-center" itemprop="articleBody"> <div><p>Gaping crevasses that penetrate upward from the bottom of the largest remaining ice shelf on the Antarctic Peninsula make it more susceptible to collapse, according to University of Colorado Boulder researchers who spent the last four Southern Hemisphere summers studying the massive floating sheet of ice that covers an area twice the size of Massachusetts.</p><p>But the scientists also found that ribbons running through the Larsen C Ice Shelf – made up of a mixture of ice types that, together, are more prone to bending than breaking – make the shelf more resilient than it otherwise would be.</p><p>The research team from ¶¶Òõ¶ÌÊÓƵ-Boulder's Cooperative Institute for Research in the Environmental Sciences presented the findings Dec. 6 at the American Geophysical Union's annual meeting in San Francisco.</p><p><a href="http://www.colorado.edu/news/releases/2012/12/07/massive-crevasses-and-bendable-ice-affect-stability-antarctic-ice-shelf-cu" rel="nofollow">Read entire ¶¶Òõ¶ÌÊÓƵ Boulder news article</a></p></div> </div> <div class="ucb-article-content-media ucb-article-content-media-right col-lg"> <div> <div class="paragraph paragraph--type--media paragraph--view-mode--default"> </div> </div> </div> </div> </div> </div> </div> <h2> <div class="paragraph paragraph--type--ucb-related-articles-block paragraph--view-mode--default"> <div>Off</div> </div> </h2> <div>Traditional</div> <div>0</div> <div>On</div> <div>White</div> Fri, 07 Dec 2012 16:31:35 +0000 Anonymous 1062 at /geography