"Fairy Palace" attacked by global warming
This hole was eaten into the cave-ice of the "Fairy Palace" (a section of the Dachstein Mammut Höhle/Austria) by change of ventilation, most likely due to climate change. Students of my "Cave and Karst" course of the Technische Universität Darmstadt inspect this remarkable witness of a changing environment in August 2008. The ice-wall is gone since then.
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- Europe (3776)
- Western Europe (766)
- Austria (136)
- Exact location (13.7122 E, 47.5346 N)
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Canon PowerShot S5 IS
Taken on 5
August
2008
Submitted on 14 February 2018
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Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivs 3.0 Unported (CC BY-NC-ND 3.0)
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Stephan Kempe (distributed via imaggeo.egu.eu)
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