According to some scientists a massive iceberg has struck Antarctica, blocking another giant block of ice from a glacier.
The Australian Antarctic Division glaciologist Neal Young, had further discovered that the two ice blocks are floating together about 62 to 93 miles off the eastern.
The 97-kilometer long iceberg, equivalent to the size of Luxembourg, had collided with the giant floating chunk of ice from the Mertz Glacier and carved out a new panic, as they are floating next to each other.
The new iceberg formed is 78 kilometers long and about 39 kilometers wide and is moving with the density of a fifth of the world’s annual total water usage.
The iceberg B9B, which hit the Mertz Glacier had fled free from different part of Antarctica in 1987. It has been trailing alongside the Mertz from the past 18 years before this month’s dislodging.
This panic aroused due to one possible reason that the iceberg’s latest location and the water there might had warmed during Antarctica’s summer, leaving less sea ice.
The icebergs weigh 860 billion tons and 700 billion tons respectively, and are drifting in water over the Antarctic Continental.