Fractured lake ice with small gas bubbles
by Thomas Opel
The thermokarst lakes on Samoylov Island in the Lena River Delta are in winter covered by about 1.5m of ice. This ice is highly fractured and contains numerous gas bubbles, mainly methane. The area covers about 1m by 1m.
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- Polar regions (196)
- Arctic (77)
- Exact location (126.4363 E, 72.3649 N)
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Nikon D40X
Taken on 18
April
2013
Submitted on 20 February 2017
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Creative Commons Attribution 3.0 Unported (CC BY 3.0)
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Thomas Opel (distributed via imaggeo.egu.eu)
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