From John Wiley, this Quick Time movie displays calving of Antarctica’s Pine Island Glacier. Calving is the process by which coastal glacier ice at the ice/water interface detaches from the main body of the glacier, creating an iceberg. The animation can be paused and rewound to emphasize important points. This movie is from Chapter 20 (Glacier Systems and the Ice Age) of the animations section of the Instructor Companion Site for the Wiley Higher Education textbook (ISBN 0-471-23800-7) Physical Geography: Science and Systems of the Human Environment, Second Edition by Alan Strahler.
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