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Margerie Glacier,Glacier Bay National Park & Preserve, Alaska.
Discovered by John Muir in 1879.Sixteen tidewater glacier spill out from the mountain to the sea,it receding faster than any other glacier on earth,its ice is rapidly melting and thinning.The land itself is rising 1 1/2 inches a year as it rebounds from the weight of snow melted glaciers,due to global warming or green house effect.
Hubbard Glacier is a glacier located in eastern Alaska and part of Yukon, Canada, and named after Gardiner Hubbard.
The edge of a large glacier in South Iceland with the rivers formed from melting ice visible towards the top of the shot.
The ice flow movement of the glacier mixes in with the underlying volcanic ash to create these amazing random patterns than resemble (to me) aboriginal art.
Taken from a small 4 seater helicopter with the doors off to give us clear shots .An incredible experience despite how windy it was and bitterly cold!
🇮🇸 Jökulsárlón glacier lagoon, bordering Vatnajökull National Park in southeastern Iceland. Its still, blue waters are dotted with icebergs from the surrounding Breiðamerkurjökull Glacier. The lagoon flows through a short waterway into the Atlantic Ocean, leaving chunks of ice on a black sand beach.
La Strada n. 1 Hringvegur, consente di fare il periplo dell'Islanda, è la strada più importante del paese e non è totalmente asfaltata. E' impossibile percorrerla senza femarsi ogni pochi chilometri per ammirare la selvaggia maestosità della natura islandese.
Qui una lingua del principale ghiacciaio del Paese, il Vatnajokull, arriva fino a valle a lambire la strada...
Un sogno nel vento!!!!!!
An inspiring sight. Nigardsbreen glacier, which is one of 50 branches of the Jostedalsbreen glacier, the largest on mainland europe covering 487 square kilometres.
Glaciers all over the world are melting. In Iceland. According to wired.co.uk we are losing 0.34 per cent a year. "They will be gone in 200 years if global warming continues like this." Enjoy the beauty will it lasts.
"Lamplugh Glacier is an 8-mile-long (13 km) glacier located in Glacier Bay National Park and Preserve in the U.S. state of Alaska. It leads north to its 1961 terminus in Johns Hopkins Inlet, 1.4 miles (2.3 km) west of Ptarmigan Creek and 76 miles (122 km) northwest of Hoonah. The glacier was named by Lawrence Martin of the U.S. Geological Survey around 1912 for English geologist George William Lamplugh (1859–1926), who visited Glacier Bay in 1884." Wiki
Icebergs in a lake at the terminus of Valdez Glacier, a lake of melted 10,000-year-old ice.
Smoke from wildfires in Alaska's interior obscure the otherwise clear blue sky.
Located in Glacier National Park, Montana. What a gorgeous still morning, this was. A passing cloud, lightly muting the sun, just enough to reduced the strong contrast and provide this scene with a wonderful soft light. The timing could't be more perfect, to capture the slowly passing boat.
Happy Birthday Rafael Sanchez! Todo un honor haber compartido contigo este viaje fotográfico a Montana y Canada
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This berg and many others were as large as a house !
Took a small boat adventure cruise with Uncruise in S.E. Alaska. When asked what was our goal for the trip, most people said they wanted to see some form of wildlife. When they got to me I simply said "blue ice".
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Formed thousands of years ago, Vatnajökull is by far the largest glacier in Iceland and the largest glacier mass in all of Europe. It covers an area of roughly 8,000 qs km (5,500 sq miles) and is almost 1000m thick at its deepest point, with an average thickness of 500m and a total ice volume of 3300 cubic kilometers. The landscape under the glacier is an undulating plateau generally reaching 600-800 m above sea level with numerous valleys and canyons.
There are also a number of large active volcanoes under the ice cap including Öræfajökull (2110 m), Bárðarbunga (2020 m) and Grímsvötn which has the highest eruption frequency of all the volcanoes in Iceland.
The latest eruption in Grímsvötn was in May 2011 and so far the strongest one for the last 100 years. It began with 12 km high plumes accompanied with multiple earthquakes and an ash cloud rising up to 20 km.*
*http://www.glacierguides.is/vatnajokull-general-information
The Eqi Glacier 800 km north of Ilulissat, Greenland. The glacier is 200 meters high and more than a kilometer wide.
We hiked to the delta and watched the calving of the glacier from a distance of approx 6 km.
The most blue among Patagonian glaciers reached at the end of a three hour beautiful but a little hurried hike on the east shore of Laguna Grey, as seen in a very cloudy day!
Notes // On Black // Interesthings // Continente Patagonia
Walking on this clear platform hanging over the abyss was a thrilling experience. We combined it with a tour that also involved getting to walk on (and drink from) the Athabasca Glacier. I recommend the entire experience.
Fox Glacier, South Westland.
Whilst photographing, lenticular clouds formed & then started falling at their edges like waterfalls
When glaciers cut through the Hudson Valley and the sea levels rose, they created a fjord and, of course, some mountains. You're looking at Breakneck Ridge from Storm King Mountain. The fjord came to be known as the Hudson River. The lower half of the river is now a tidal estuary that occupies the Hudson Fjord. The fjord is estimated to have formed between 26,000 and 13,300 years ago.