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  Wednesday  March 20  2002    03: 35 AM

Environment

Antarctic ice shelf breaks apart

An Antarctic ice shelf that was 200 metres thick and had a surface area of 3,250 square kilometers has broken apart in less than two months.
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"We knew what was left would collapse eventually, but the speed of it is staggering," said Dr David Vaughan, a glaciologist at the Bas in Cambridge.
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