Cracked skin of the Allalin glacier
The Allalin glacier (Valais, Switzerland) shows her skin during the conditions of late summer 2016. Despite the open-ended and growing pressure of climatic forcing, we still have the opportunity to enjoy her beauty and prowess.
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- Climate: Past, Present & Future (708)
- Cryospheric Sciences (699)
- European Geosciences Union (337)
- Field (2825)
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- Europe (3783)
- Western Europe (767)
- Switzerland (145)
- Exact location (7.9268 E, 46.0508 N)
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Nikon D3300
Taken on 24
September
2016
Submitted on 14 February 2018
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Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 3.0 Unported (CC BY-SA 3.0)
Credit
Leonie Kiewiet (distributed via imaggeo.egu.eu)
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