Retreating glacier in Iceland
Morsárjökull outlet glacier, Southeast Iceland is still connected by a strip of thin ice to its accumulation zone. About 80 years ago the rocks below the overlying ice was totally covered by the glacier.
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- Europe (3704)
- Northern Europe (869)
- Iceland (287)
- Exact location (-16.8926 W, 64.1018 N)
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Nikon D5000
Software: Nikon ViewNX 2
Taken on 11
August
2014
Submitted on 15 February 2019
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Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 3.0 Unported (CC BY-SA 3.0)
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Snaevarr Gudmundsson (distributed via imaggeo.egu.eu)
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