Uploaded July 2025 | Updated September 2026, 2 weeks ago
Possible Origins of an Extremely Rare Black Iceberg Spotted off Labrador
An extremely experienced sailor, with 5 decades of ocean experience in numerous ice fields off Greenland and Labrador recently spotted and took a picture of a very rare black iceberg.
What are the origins of this iceberg. We know it was from Greenland, and likely calved off at some moment between one and three years ago. Why is it black. Is it covered in plain dirt, or is it covered in something more exotic like volcanic ash, dust from a meteorite strike in northwest Greenland, or something even weirder?
We just don't know.
I chat about the possible origins of this very strange and unusual black iceberg.
Please donate to PaulBeckwith.net to support my research and videos connecting the dots on abrupt climate system mayhem.
Sincerely,
Paul and Newton
CBC News Article:
Rare black iceberg spotted off Labrador coast has social media buzzing -
Berg may contain ice colored by millennia of dirt — or even a meteorite strike
cbc.ca/news/canada/newfoundland-labrador/black-iceberg-labrador-coast-1.7551078
Google Earth Location of Black Iceberg Sighting:
earth.google.com/web/search/Nain,+NL/@59.4437618,-61.56626607,-994.29170099a,6334045.17488122d,35y,-0.00006221h,0.27932769t,-0r/data=CncaSRJDCiUweDRjNjk3ZThmN2JhYTE5NDk6MHhhODEwYjZmYWJhMWNiNDJjGbwrcdNVRUxAIRt7m6Mz2U7AKghOYWluLCBOTBgCIAEiJgokCdbba8mUO0hAESsw7kfH8kdAGWBfSlExhU3AIa1ot50RP07AQgIIAToDCgEwQgIIAEoNCP___________wEQAA
Popular Mechanics News Article:
A Sailor Found a Pitch-Black Iceberg That May Hold Secrets From 100,000 Years Ago
The coloration may be caused by volcanic ash or simply dirt that hasn’t seen the light of day in millenia.
popularmechanics.com/science/environment/a65088708/black-iceberg-canada
National Post News Article:
Black iceberg spotted off Labrador could be result of an asteroid strike
Hallur Antoniussen took the picture from a fishing trawler in May. It has since generated many theories for its unusual color
nationalpost.com/news/space/black-iceberg-spotted-off-labrador-could-be-result-of-an-asteroid-strike
EOS article:
Enormous Impact Crater Spotted in Greenland Under Glacial Ice
Ice-penetrating radar revealed a 31-kilometer impact crater—one of the world’s largest—in northwestern Greenland that might have been formed fewer than 20,000 years ago.
eos.org/articles/enormous-impact-crater-spotted-in-greenland-under-glacial-ice#:~:text=Ice%2Dpenetrating%20radar%20revealed%20a,fewer%20than%2020%2C000%20years%20ago.
Wikipedia Earth Impact Database:
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Earth_Impact_Database
Wikipedia List of Impact Structures on Earth
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_impact_structures_on_Earth
Peer-reviewed scientific paper on huge meteor crater in NW Greenland under the Hiawatha Glacier
Title: A large impact crater beneath Hiawatha Glacier innorthwest Greenland
Abstract
We report the discovery of a large impact crater beneath Hiawatha Glacier in northwest Greenland. From airborne radar surveys, we identify a 31-kilometer-wide, circular bedrock depression beneath up to a kilometer of ice. This depression has an elevated rim that cross-cuts tributary subglacial channels and a subdued central uplift that appears to be actively eroding. From ground investigations of the deglaciated foreland, we identify overprinted structures within Precambrian bedrock along the ice margin that strike tangent to the subglacial rim. Glaciofluvial sediment from the largest river draining the crater contains shocked quartz and other impact-related grains. Geochemical analysis of this sediment indicates that the impactor was a fractionated iron asteroid, which must have been more than a kilometer wide to produce the identified crater. Radiostratigraphy of the ice in the crater shows that the Holocene ice is continuous and conformable, but all deeper and older ice appears to be debris rich or heavily disturbed. The age of this impact crater is presently unknown, but from our geological and geophysical evidence, we conclude that it is unlikely to predate the Pleistocene inception of the Greenland Ice Sheet.
Link to Open-Source (Free) Greenland Asteroid paper:
science.org/doi/epdf/10.1126/sciadv.aar8173
Please donate to PaulBeckwith.net to support my research and videos connecting the dots on abrupt climate system mayhem.
Sincerely,
Paul and Newton
Possible Origins of an Extremely Rare Black Iceberg Spotted off Labrador
An extremely experienced sailor, with 5 decades of ocean experience in numerous ice fields off Greenland and Labrador recently spotted and took a picture of a very rare black iceberg.
What are the origins of this iceberg. We know it was from Greenland, and likely calved off at some moment between one and three years ago. Why is it black. Is it covered in plain dirt, or is it covered in something more exotic like volcanic ash, dust from a meteorite strike in northwest Greenland, or something even weirder?
We just don't know.
I chat about the possible origins of this very strange and unusual black iceberg.
Please donate to PaulBeckwith.net to support my research and videos connecting the dots on abrupt climate system mayhem.
Sincerely,
Paul and Newton
CBC News Article:
Rare black iceberg spotted off Labrador coast has social media buzzing -
Berg may contain ice colored by millennia of dirt — or even a meteorite strike
cbc.ca/news/canada/newfoundland-labrador/black-iceberg-labrador-coast-1.7551078
Google Earth Location of Black Iceberg Sighting:
earth.google.com/web/search/Nain,+NL/@59.4437618,-61.56626607,-994.29170099a,6334045.17488122d,35y,-0.00006221h,0.27932769t,-0r/data=CncaSRJDCiUweDRjNjk3ZThmN2JhYTE5NDk6MHhhODEwYjZmYWJhMWNiNDJjGbwrcdNVRUxAIRt7m6Mz2U7AKghOYWluLCBOTBgCIAEiJgokCdbba8mUO0hAESsw7kfH8kdAGWBfSlExhU3AIa1ot50RP07AQgIIAToDCgEwQgIIAEoNCP___________wEQAA
Popular Mechanics News Article:
A Sailor Found a Pitch-Black Iceberg That May Hold Secrets From 100,000 Years Ago
The coloration may be caused by volcanic ash or simply dirt that hasn’t seen the light of day in millenia.
popularmechanics.com/science/environment/a65088708/black-iceberg-canada
National Post News Article:
Black iceberg spotted off Labrador could be result of an asteroid strike
Hallur Antoniussen took the picture from a fishing trawler in May. It has since generated many theories for its unusual color
nationalpost.com/news/space/black-iceberg-spotted-off-labrador-could-be-result-of-an-asteroid-strike
EOS article:
Enormous Impact Crater Spotted in Greenland Under Glacial Ice
Ice-penetrating radar revealed a 31-kilometer impact crater—one of the world’s largest—in northwestern Greenland that might have been formed fewer than 20,000 years ago.
eos.org/articles/enormous-impact-crater-spotted-in-greenland-under-glacial-ice#:~:text=Ice%2Dpenetrating%20radar%20revealed%20a,fewer%20than%2020%2C000%20years%20ago.
Wikipedia Earth Impact Database:
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Earth_Impact_Database
Wikipedia List of Impact Structures on Earth
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_impact_structures_on_Earth
Peer-reviewed scientific paper on huge meteor crater in NW Greenland under the Hiawatha Glacier
Title: A large impact crater beneath Hiawatha Glacier innorthwest Greenland
Abstract
We report the discovery of a large impact crater beneath Hiawatha Glacier in northwest Greenland. From airborne radar surveys, we identify a 31-kilometer-wide, circular bedrock depression beneath up to a kilometer of ice. This depression has an elevated rim that cross-cuts tributary subglacial channels and a subdued central uplift that appears to be actively eroding. From ground investigations of the deglaciated foreland, we identify overprinted structures within Precambrian bedrock along the ice margin that strike tangent to the subglacial rim. Glaciofluvial sediment from the largest river draining the crater contains shocked quartz and other impact-related grains. Geochemical analysis of this sediment indicates that the impactor was a fractionated iron asteroid, which must have been more than a kilometer wide to produce the identified crater. Radiostratigraphy of the ice in the crater shows that the Holocene ice is continuous and conformable, but all deeper and older ice appears to be debris rich or heavily disturbed. The age of this impact crater is presently unknown, but from our geological and geophysical evidence, we conclude that it is unlikely to predate the Pleistocene inception of the Greenland Ice Sheet.
Link to Open-Source (Free) Greenland Asteroid paper:
science.org/doi/epdf/10.1126/sciadv.aar8173
Please donate to PaulBeckwith.net to support my research and videos connecting the dots on abrupt climate system mayhem.
Sincerely,
Paul and Newton
