Question

in 2000, a gargantuan iceberg broke away from the ross ice sheet in antarctica. it was approximately a rectangle with dimensions 295 km long, 37.0 km wide, and 250.0 m thick. what is the mass of this iceberg, given that the density of ice is 917 kg/m3 ?

Answer 1

M = ρ V

V = 2.95E5 * 3.7E4 * 250 m^3 = 2.76E12 m^3 total volume of ice

M = 917 kg/m^3 * 2.76E12 m^3 = 2.53E15 kg