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In 1986, a gargantuan iceberg broke away from the Ross Ice Shelf in Antarctica. It was approximately a rectangle 160 km
long, 40 km wide, and 250 m thick. C. How long, in years, would it take sunlight alone to melt ice this thick, if the ice
absorbs an average of 100 W/m^2, 12.00 hours per day?

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