Frost-cracked landscape
Jana Eichel
Karlsruhe Institute of Technology, Karlsruhe, Germany
Quite unexpected from the gentle foreground of grassy plains and rolling hills, the barren mountains of New Zealand’s Craigieburn Range have been shaped by intense frost-cracking activity. On their bare summits, frost action cracks open rocks, whose pieces then fall down as rockfalls and produce the vast scree slopes covering the hillslopes in the back of the photo.
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Creative Commons Attribution-NoDerivs 3.0 Unported (CC BY-ND 3.0) (opens in a new window)Credit: Jana Eichel (distributed via imaggeo.egu.eu)
Properties
Type
Image
Format
JPG
Size
21.3 MB
Width
5474 px
Height
3649 px
Aspect
5474:3649
Brand
Sony
Model
ILCE-6000
Exposure
16 mm f/7.1 1/800 s ISO 100
Taken
14 March 2017
Coordinates
-43.1967, 171.7433
Tint
Vivid purplish blue
Submitted
23 January 2018
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