<div style="margin: 12px 0px; font-family: arial; color: #333333; background: #ffffff; border: solid 4px #e5e5e5; width: 100%; clear: left;"><div class="CM_CTB_Content_Wrap" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;background-color: #ffffff;"><div style="border-bottom: solid 1px #dcdcdc; white-space: nowrap; margin-bottom: 8px; background-color: #eeeeee ;background-image: url(http://clipmarks.com/images/source-bg.gif); background-repeat: repeat-x; height: 24px; line-height: 24px; vertical-align: middle; padding-bottom: 4px; color: #666666; font-size: 10px;" ><a href="http://clipmarks.com/clip-to-blog/" title="see clips that are hot right now"><img src="http://content.clipmarks.com/blog_embed/46be918e-17bd-4f11-bdee-e3c5b834b96e/F366278E-5E8A-42C2-A250-658B5E80EEFF/" alt="" width="19" height="19" border="0" style="vertical-align: middle; margin: 0px 4px; display: inline; border: none; float:none;" /></a>clipped from <a title="http://www.earthfiles.com/" href="http://www.earthfiles.com/" style="font-size: 11px;">www.earthfiles.com</a></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www.earthfiles.com/"><FONT size="+1">April 4, 2009 - Ice Bridge Holding Antarctic Wilkins Ice Shelf Cracked Apart Today. </FONT></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www.earthfiles.com/"><P align="center"><FONT size="+2"><EM>“I</EM></FONT><EM>t's amazing how the ice has ruptured. Two days ago it was intact.” </EM><FONT size="+1">- D</FONT>avid Vaughan, Glaciologist, British Antarctic Survey</P></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www.earthfiles.com/"><div align="center"><img src="http://content7.clipmarks.com/blog_cache/www.earthfiles.com/img/FBBD6E53-B491-43C9-A973-BF998B3937E3" alt="" /></div></blockquote><div style="height: 2px; font-size: 2px; background: #dcdcdc; border-bottom: solid 1px #f5f5f5; margin: 2px 4px;"></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www.earthfiles.com/"><P align="center"><FONT size="+1">T</FONT><FONT size="-1">he Wilkins Ice Shelf is breaking away from the Antarctic Peninsula as the ice bridge (blue lines) that connects it to Charcot Island (upper left) is cracking apart. The Advanced Synthetic Aperture Radar (ASAR) image above was acquired on April 2, 2009, by ESA’s Envisat satellite confirm that rifts are quickly expanding along the ice bridge.</FONT> <STRONG><A href="http://www.esa.int/esaCP/SEMD07EH1TF_index_0.html"><FONT size="-1">See ESA. </FONT></A></STRONG></P></blockquote></div><div style="margin: 0px 6px 6px 4px;"><table style="font-size: 11px;border-spacing: 0px;padding: 0px;" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" width="100%"><tr><td style="background:transparent;border-width:0px;padding:0px;">&nbsp;</td><td align="right" style="background:transparent;border-width:0px;padding:0px;width:107px" width="107"><a href="http://clipmarks.com/share/F366278E-5E8A-42C2-A250-658B5E80EEFF/blog/" title="blog or email this clip"><img src="http://content8.clipmarks.com/images/c2b-foot.png" border="0" alt="blog it" width="107" height="17" style="border-width:0px;padding:0px;margin:0px;" /></a></td></tr></table></div></div>

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