Frost-cracked landscape
by 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.
Taken on 14
March
2017
Submitted on 23 January 2018
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- Oceania (199)
- Australia and New Zealand (188)
- New Zealand (113)
- Exact location (171.7433 E, -43.1967 S)
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ice, mountains, new zealand, high mountains, rocks, frost
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Credit: Jana Eichel (distributed via imaggeo.egu.eu)
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