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Today's cover shots: A very interesting process watching a glacier calve. Close to the face, you can hear and feel a very low rumbling... the noise being made by the very slow movement of the huge block of ice as it slides over the ground it is sitting on. There is a constant stream of rifle-like sounds as the ice cracks & gets ready to break off. Then, various sized slabs of ice break off and with a sound like thunder, it crashes downward into the water below. Some of the falls are very small but some are huge blocks of ice. 16 glaciers feed into Glacier Bay. These pics are all from Margerie Glacier. It moves at a rate of five feet per day.
The process makes impressive pictures but missing here are the smells, the sounds, and the rush of cold air with each calve.
Afterthought: The glacier's rumbling noise it makes as it slowly moves is called "White Thunder" by the Tlinget Tribe.
Impressive
Wow, those are some pictures. Global warming at work.
Sorry about "skag" but I really didn't know. I've heard the term "skank" as in a trailer trash woman but not exactly a prostitute. Hard to keep up with the new terms.
Carol - No apology needed! It's a BAD joke at best........
They're finding some strange results with glaciers due to climate change. Some of them are actually growing in thickness because they are getting extra snow. It's too early to tell how that is going to play out over a longer period of time. There doesn't seem to be a single set of rules that applies to every glacier the same way. Depth, width, length and their individual winter weather patterns are all coming into play. Some of them have been receding for 250 years... long before they should have been... but they don't know why. One theory that is gaining support is that El Nino and La Nina have played a larger part than previously believed... but nobody seems to know if that's true or not. Another factor seems to be the glacier's movement speed which determines its calving rate. The glacier's size, weight and the amount of slope of the land it's sitting on all go together to dictate how fast it moves downhill. The more it weighs, the faster it moves... which would seem to be a balancing factor... but who knows? It's beyond my limited knowledge of the subject. All I really know is that a piece of glacier ice is the perfect touch for a mixed drink. It's harder and colder and melts much slower than a traditional ice cube.
LOL..a glacier cocktail! I love it.
The more glacier ice in the ocean, the colder the water is that is evaporated and that colder water is then deposited as snow in the lower states. The people who make jokes about 'global warming' when it's snowing are correct but they just don't know it. We will soon be at the tipping point and will be unable to halt the process I believe to be caused by industrialization.
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