Icebergs
ALL ABOARD! JOURNEY with an ICEBERG
Let's take a journey with an Arctic iceberg. Our journey begins at the Greenland
ice cap, where as snow we fell forming deep layers of ice. The more snow that
fell the more packed we became in the large bowl of central Greenland. We
are now a glaciers moving slowly towards the ocean. As we reach the ocean it
is summer. The wind, waves, and currents work on us until we break off our
mother glacier and are carried from our birth place to the far south by the
chilly Labrador Current. On this leg of our journey, the resonance of the waves cause
us to fracture, leaving little growlers and bergy bits in our wake. Eventually
we reach the warmer waters of the Gulf
Stream and quickly melt away.
Go "FORWARD" to find out more!
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