ABSTRACT

A flat-topped iceberg that has become detached from an ice-shelf, ice tongue or floating tidewater glacier. Tabular bergs are typically several kilometres long, and several hundred metres thick (Figure T.1). Antarctic tabular bergs may attain dimensions of over 100 km, and in a large group may be referred to as an iceberg armada. Tabular iceberg off the northeastern Antarctic Peninsula, showing an elevated waterline as a result of tilting resulting from uneven melting underwater. https://s3-euw1-ap-pe-df-pch-content-public-p.s3.eu-west-1.amazonaws.com/9781315373157/95d5ad9e-a71d-4f11-a609-2c025b95638b/content/figt_1.jpg"/>