Icebergs are generated when large pieces are breaking off from an ice shelf. They can be 10s to several 1000 m in diameter and up to over 400 m thick. Waves and water wash and melt the larger icebergs until they turn around and break into smaller pieces. The result are different forms and shapes. Sometimes, like here, icebergs contain with frozen layers of algaes
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Year: 2007
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Media Type: Photograph
Data Type: Photograph
Device Type: Camera:Digital
Feature: Antarctica:AmundsenSea
Investigator: Frank Nitsche
Expedition: NBP0702
Chief Scientist: Stan Jacobs
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