Icy melt channels by black gravel
Dark gravel accumulates on glacial ice in existing sinks. Due to reduced an albedo the gravel heats up and melts itself further into the ice until a pattern of cylindrical water filled holes with gravel at its bottom is created.
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- Polar regions (197)
- Arctic (77)
- Exact location (14.3848 E, 78.1492 N)
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6000 × 4000 px;
image/jpeg; 6.6 MB
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Canon EOS 77D
Taken in
September
2018
Submitted on 20 January 2023
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Creative Commons Attribution-NoDerivs 3.0 Unported (CC BY-ND 3.0)
Credit
Andreas Brotzer (distributed via imaggeo.egu.eu)
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