Images tagged "glacial-retreat"

Greenland Ice Sheet, Greenland, 14 July 2008, Bubbles of ancient air, possibly 15,000 years old, are released as the ice sheet melts

JÃ¶kulsÃ¡rlÃ³n Iceland 3/2/09. Where the glacier goes to die: Pieces of the great Breidermerkurjokull washed up on the beach at Jokulsarlon, Iceland. The ice was originally created 500-700 years ago in snowstorms high on the great Vatnajokull Ice Cap. The Breidermerjokull is one of the ice streams draining the ice cap. The ice stream has been retreating since 1930, leaving the tidewater lagoon known as "Jokulsarlon." Calved into Jokulsarlon, the icebergs float across the lagoon, breaking into smaller and smaller pieces as they go, then flow into the waves of the North Atlantic. At high tide, they wash up on the beach, then are taken away by the sea when the high tide returns half a day later. Through the process of destruction, they are contributing, drop by drop, to the rise of global sea level. The chunks of ice have been dubbed "ice diamonds" by James Balog.

Mendenhall Glacier, Alaska, USA, 16 September 2010, from ICE:Portraits of Vanishing Glaciers

Coast Mountains, British Columbia, Canada, 2 September 2009, Algae colors ice and meltwater on surface of unnamed lake, from ICE: Portraits of Vanishing Glaciers

Ilulissat Glacier, Greenland, 7 June 2007, Calving face, 30 to 40 stories high above sea level, from ICE: Portraits of Vanishing Glaciers.

Greenland Ice Sheet, Greenland, 14 July 2008, Bubbles of ancient air, possibly 15,000 years old, are released as the ice sheet melts, from ICE: Portraits of Vanishing Glaciers

Ilulissat Isfjord, Greenland, 24 August 2007. Icebergs that have rolled over and been scalloped by waves metamorphose into fantastic shapes, from ICE: Portraits of Vanishing Glaciers

Ilulissat Isfjord, Greenland, 24 August 2007, from ICE: Portraits of Vanishing Glaciers

Jökulsárlón, Iceland, 4 March 2005, from ICE: Portraits of Vanishing Glaciers

Jökulsárlón, Iceland, 4 March 2005. Icebergs that originated in the vast expanse of the Vatnajokull decay and melt in a tidal lagoon, from ICE: Portraits of Vanishing Glaciers

Greenland Ice Sheet, Greenland, 9 July 2009, On the surface of a meltwater pool, crystals formed by cold air at midnight, from ICE: Portraits of Vanishing Glaciers

Jökulsárlón Iceland, 7 February 2008. Ice diamond. Icebergs float across the lagoon, breaking into smaller and smaller pieces as they go, then flow into the waves of the North Atlantic, from ICE: Portraits of Vanishing Glaciers

Jökulsárlón, Iceland, 16 June 2011. Ice diamond, from ICE: Portraits of Vanishing Glaciers

Jökulsárlón, Iceland, 16 June 2011. Ice diamond, from ICE: Portraits of Vanishing Glaciers

Birthday Canyon, Greenland Ice Sheet, 28 June 2009, Adam LeWinter surveys Birthday Canyon, from ICE: Portraits of Vanishing Glaciers.

Jökulsárlón Iceland, 2 March 2009. Ice diamond, from ICE: Portraits of Vanishing Glaciers.

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