Glacier meltwater river Greenland
Andrew Sole
University of Sheffield, Sheffield, UK
This photo shows glacier meltwater from the Greenland Ice Sheet thundering over a waterfall near Kangelussuaq in west Greenland. Measurements of water flow and sediment concentration enabled us to estimate the rate at which the ice erodes the underlying bedrock.
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Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 3.0 Unported (CC BY-NC-SA 3.0) (opens in a new window)Credit: Andrew Sole (distributed via imaggeo.egu.eu)
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Image
Format
JPG
Size
4.4 MB
Width
2326 px
Height
3169 px
Aspect
2326:3169
Brand
Canon
Model
EOS 1D MkII
Exposure
17 mm f/22 1/10 s ISO 50
Taken
4 August 2010
Tint
Greenish black
Submitted
24 February 2013
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