The rare black iceberg exiting the Labrador Coast may be 100,000 years old, says Pro says
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A rare black iceberg, spotted from the Labrador coast, is a spatting on social media, as the carbonier, after the fish harvester living in NL, took a picture of it while fishing for the shrimp last month. rare black iceberg
Originally from Faro Islands, Hallur Antonisen was working with a crew on the Saputi Factory Freezer Trequent on the Labrador coast in mid -May.
He had never seen an iceberg in this way before. rare black iceberg
Antonius said in an interview with CBC radio with CBC radio, “I have seen the iceberg, which they say they say that they say that the beach is rolled on the beach with some rocks. It is a completely different. It is a completely different. It is not only all black. It is almost … in the shape of a diamond.” Labrador morning,
He looked at Berg after the ship went over the crane, when he was more than 100 kilometers of offshore in the Hopdel channel, which were located between Nain and Hopdel.
A crew member counted 47 icebergs in the area a day earlier.
Antonisen does not think it is a berg that rolled on the beach – or picks up dirt and rocks after being on the ground. He has seen a lot of icebergs in his 50 years of 50 years of fishing from Greenland, and has recently been away from the Labrador coast since 1989.
The 64 -year -old said it was difficult to estimate the size of icebergs in the sea, but felt that it was at least three times the size of a regular bungalow.
He took a picture from about six kilometers away.
He said, “This is something that you don’t see many times, and when I am working, there is nothing with which I run (with). So, I just ran to my room and took my phone and snatched the picture,” he said.
rare black iceberg
Antonisen said that Berg looked like a rock, which had a lot of dark grace and black veins, and quickly stated that a shadow was being put on it.
He took a photo to show other crew members on the fishing boat. rare black iceberg Then Antonisen posted it on Facebook, and soon took it to flying, received hundreds of comments after being shared around.
Commentators have told about everything from aliens to precious metals, and even dinosaurs are hidden in snow.
“This is an oil berg,” a poster said.
“Looks like a huge (woolen) mammath!” Another said.
Antonisen is clear: this is a real picture.
Other people wonder whether the iceberg has ashes of the volcano, the result of some ancient explosion.
An impressive iceberg
Lev Tarsov, Professor at a Memorial University of Physical Oceanography, does not rule that the final theory is completely out.
Tarasov says that Iceland has volcanoes under the ice cap, and when he is not sure about volcanoes in Greenland, he said scientists have measured the hotspot in the central region of Landmas.
Like Antonisen, he has not seen an iceberg before this way.
Tarsov visited the small versions of the black iceberg during his fieldwork at the last summer at the Congress Fazard in Greenland -not that much effective, he said.
rare black iceberg
He estimates that it can be between 1,000 and 2,000 years, but it may also contain ice that is more than 100,000 years old.
Tarsov stated that ice from around Greenland is slowly turning towards its beach, and when it reaches there, it breaks to make icebergs.
Those icebergs may take one to three years before reaching Newfoundland and Labrador coast.
One terrestrial journey
Tarasov says that it is a reminder of how dynamic ice can occur.
Snow streams, also known as outlet glaciers, rare black iceberg move much faster than other parts of the ice sheet; They carry ice from the interior, travel through deep valleys or channels.
They raise rocks and dirt on the way.
“There are some parts of snow that are actually flowing up to 20 kilometers per year, which would mean … ice is running a few meters every hour,” Tarasov said.
Under the ice, they grind against the earth’s crust, they explained. rare black iceberg There is a lot of churning, all that rock and sediment are converted into a powder that then spreads through ice columns.
Tarasov said that the ground-up rock would take a long time to spread so equally throughout the snow.
Snowfall
Tarasov said that black berg was probably part of a large part of snow, before it broke into water.
“Over time, as it travels around Bafin Bay and under the Labrador coast, it is melting. So I think a lot of snow melts. Maybe the part that is clear, okay, is okay, again, 90 percent of the ice is under water. So we are only looking at the snow’s tip,” he said.
Tarasov feels that the snowfall rolled at some point, and now showing its underbelley. rare black iceberg
He also provides another possible explanation for the complicated color of the rare black iceberg.
There is strong evidence that about 12,000 years ago, an asteroid was killed in the north -western corner of Greenland, he said. If it comes from the region, the rare black iceberg Himshil may have some dust from that meteorite strike.
It does not matter that, the possibility of snow is not new: it is quite possible that the dirt on the iceberg may not have not seen the light of the day for hundreds of thousands of years, “Tarasov said.
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