0 past simple and past participle of calve --
1 When a cow calves, it gives birth to a calf (= a young cow): --
Pobeda disappeared sometime in the 1970s, to be replaced by a new berg that calved in 1985.
The glacier flows at a rate of 20-35 m per day, resulting in around 20 billion tonnes of icebergs calved off and passing out of the fjord every year.
In 1766, another expedition noticed that the glacier did reach the lagoon and calved into large icebergs.
In 1766 another expedition noticed that the glacier did reach the lagoon and had calved into icebergs.
As recently as the mid-1980s the glacier was a tidewater glacier and calved icebergs from a wall of ice 60 m (200 feet) tall.
They slowly cut north, yard by yard, through the increasingly violent pack ice, as larger ice bergs drifted in and calved still more loose ice.
By 1948 the adjacent fjord had filled in, and the glacier no longer calved and was able to continue its advance.
This glacier retreat exposed a rapidly expanding lagoon that is filled with icebergs calved from its front.
