Evening Republican, Volume 22, Number 122, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 24 May 1919 — Immense Arctic Icebergs Are Melted by Gulf Stream Waves [ARTICLE]

Immense Arctic Icebergs Are Melted by Gulf Stream Waves

Many of the Icebergs that float southward from the arctic regions rise five to six hundred feet above the surface of the water. Yet even this towering bulk is but a fraction of the entire mass of the Iceberg, as the volume beneath the surface is said to be no less than seven times that above the level of the Waves; and it is in this grea’ter hidden mass that destruction begins to work the end of the mountainous .volume of ice. The warm waters of the Gulf Stream _ bathe the sides of the iceberg, and as they continually waste it, gradually wear away its bulk. So well do the waves do their work, that even before the iceberg has had time to float far enough 'south for the rays of the sun to melt it from above, the insidious attack of the warm waters of the great ocean current have completely destroyed It.