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of Crane Glacier increased threefold after the collapse of the Larsen B, likely due to the removal of a buttressing effect of the ice shelf. Data collected in 2007 by an international team of investigators through satellite-based radar measurements suggests that the overall ice-sheet mass balance in Antarctica is increasingly negative.

Breakup

The Larsen disintegration events were unusual by past standards. Typically, ice shelves lose mass by iceberg calving

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