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Warmer oceans might cause #glaciers to break apart more quickly.
A 6.5-mile #crack formed in 2012 on Pine Island Glacier— a retreating ice shelf that holds back the larger West Antarctic ice sheet — in about 5 and a half minutes.
The rift opened at about 115 feet per second, or about💥 80 miles per hour.💥

The 80 MPH Glacier Fracture: A Wake-Up Call From Antarctica
There’s enough water frozen in Greenland and Antarctic glaciers that if they melted, global seas would rise by many feet. What will happen to these glaciers over the coming decades is the biggest unknown in the future of rising seas, partly because glacier fracture physics is not yet fully understoo