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February 15, 2009
The Larsen B ice shelf was stable for up to 12,000 years, essentially the entire Holocene period since the last ice age. Between 2002 it collapsed from warm currents eating away the underside of the shelf. The 200-meter thick ice-shelf had become a "hotspot of global warming", and it only took three weeks (or less) to collapse.
Helmutt Rott, the Larsen B Ice-Shelf, Antarctica, Astronomy Picture of the Day
It's all gone but the mountains. Most of the sprawling landscape of ice that lies between the mountains has now disintegrated
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