Are Icebergs Made of Fresh Water or Salt Water?
An iceberg is a large piece of ice floating in the sea. They are generally found in cold water near the North or South Pole. Icebergs are especially common during spring, when ice has begun to melt. About 90% of an iceberg is below the water line and ten percent above. Just by looking at the part you can see, it is hard to tell how the part underwater looks, and how close you can get before crashing into it.
Icebergs form from a variety of processes, yet even though they may be found floating in salty seawater, they primarily consist of fresh water.
What are your thoughts on this subject?
57 Comments
Terri Clarke
Icebergs come from glaciers, which are formed from hundreds or thousands of years of snow, which is salt free.
Brantley Hickman
Not really. It didn't ask which 'would' freeze. It asked are icebergs mostly fresh salt -- and they are fresh water.
Cheryl Love
Elizabeth Buehler-Miller, icebergs come from glaciers which were not in the ocean. They are frozen fresh water.
Wayne Roberts
To clarify some comments, salt water will still freeze, but at a lower temperature!
Please google for actual temperature according to your preference for Celsius or Fahrenheit?
Elizabeth Buehler-Miller
Salt water could be an original source of frozen ice; but as it freezes, the salt is pushed out, leaving the ice made of fresh water. Interesting process.
dsneed
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dsneed
Did not answer the question of how the ice is formed on land and pushed toward the sea until it falls into the sea and falls into the sea and floats until its eminent diminished condition of melting to the point of nonexisistence. Yay me.
alachebagna
Salt melts ice so I doubt if icebergs are made of salt water
jack patti go
Missed it!
Lorna Shipton
Bottled iceberg water is available to buy for drinking, so it had to be fresh and not salt water.
Eileen Dunn
Yes .Salt melts ice.
Sandie de Rougemont
I didn't know that!
Don Racette
Criona Walsh This time I got it.
kamaker
Probably part of why they float?
Peter Timmins
Isabel Laing, irrelevant to the question , Currents are caused by thermal warming near the equator and cold sinking water at the poles. Since energy seeks equilibrium they flow in a circuit of warm rising to cold descending, resulting in currents. Other factors include gravitational pull from the moon and earth rotation
Peter Timmins
Isabel Laing, irrelevant to the question , Currents are caused by thermal warming near the equator and cold sinking water at the poles. Since energy seeks equilibrium the two. Low in a circuit of warm rising to cold descending, resulting in currents. Other factors include gravitational pull from the moon and earth rotation
rudykyf
that's why app. 9% sticks out atop the seawater level, otherwise the"iceberg" would float at any waterlevel