A Window to Fire and Ice
Brown Bluff is a basalt tuya located on the Tabarin Peninsula of northern Antarctica. This site supports a breeding colony of about 20,000 pairs of adelie penguins and about 550 pairs of gentoo penguins. Geologically speaking, Brown Bluff is simply fascinating. The towering bluffs were the result of an explosive volcanic eruption under ice. Large boulders have toppled from Brown Bluff to the beach where they have been sculpted by wind, sand, water and ice. These landscapes have a lot to tell us about life in Antarctica in previous epochs.
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Creative Commons Attribution 3.0 Unported (CC BY 3.0) (opens in a new window)Credit: Wuquan Cui (distributed via imaggeo.egu.eu)
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2.4 MB
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5389:3593
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5389 px
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3593 px
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Canon
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EOS 5D Mark III
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600 mm f/6.3 1/500 s ISO 500
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Dark yellowish brown
Submitted
12 February 2019
Taken
22 December 2018
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