Colossal Antarctic Ice Shelf Collapsed At End Of Last Ice Age
At the end of the last crank age , an armada of iceberg , each twice the height of the Empire State Building , broke off from the shoreline ofAntarctica . According to a new study in theProceedings of the National Academy of Sciences , they were created when a 280,000 - square - kilometer ( 108,000 - straight - Roman mile ) section of the colossal Ross Ice Shelf collapsed in just 1,500 years ....