Talk:Ross Ice Shelf

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How high is the ross ice shelf, what's its volume? --Abdull 03:46, 13 September 2005 (UTC)

The nearly vertical ice front above the open sea surface is 15 to 50 meters high, and 90 percent of this is below the water surface, so the total thickness would be 165 to 550 meters. If one assumes an average thickness of 300 meters (roughly the geometric mean of 165 and 550), one would calculate a volume of 150 000 km³, and that's all freshwater! By contrast, the Great Lakes have a water volume of 23 000 km³, which is 20 percent of the world's (liquid) freshwater. Ratzer 09:52, 29 March 2006 (UTC)

the ross ice shelf is mentioned in various works of fiction as breaking off/melted by volcanoes/being nuked by terrorists and causing catastrophic tsunami/sea level rise. is this worth mentioning? Mang 05:55, 21 November 2006 (UTC)