Greenland’s largest glacier crack occurred

According to the National Geographic Web site and the “Daily Mail” reported that one of Greenland’s largest glaciers in the recent phenomenon of large-scale crack and fracture of ice the size of Manhattan, an area equivalent to 4, may be recorded in history since the collapse away from the glacier The maximum a floating Iceland.

According to reports, scientists announced on August 6, 5, a huge ice glacier from the Greenland Peterman from collapse, forming a 260 square kilometers of huge floating Iceland, the equivalent of four Manhattan size, water content to meet the United States 120 days of public water supply needs.

Petermann glacier is Greenland’s largest glaciers of two existing one, 1,000 km from the North Pole. 5 taken satellite images show, Petermann glacier 70 km long ice shelf has lost nearly 1 / 4, may be history, the largest ever recorded in a glacier crack. On a similar scale glacier crack occurred in 1962, as recorded missing, scientists can not determine the form of floating at the area of Iceland.

It is reported that Petermann glacier in the past two years has been cracking state. Experts said the ice shelf is a normal process of fracture at any time are Zaifa Sheng, but this time scale Que Xiang Fei Chang rare, it is not yet whether Renweizaocheng greenhouse Youguan, while in 2010 the first half of the temperature Queshidadao the highest in history.