Rock flour and glacier water mix to make beautiful blue colours
Jennifer Ziesch
State Authority for Mining, Energy and Geology, Hannover, Germany
I took this photo of the Peyto lake in summer last year. The lake is located in the middle of the Canadian Rocky Mountains in the Banff National Park. After a short walk to the Bow Summit the geologist gets this very nice view of the blue, glacier-fed lake. This photo and especially the bright, turquoise colours haven't been edited! Significant amounts of glacial rock flour flow into the lake, and these suspended rock particles give the lake this nice colours.
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Reuse
Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 3.0 Unported (CC BY-SA 3.0) (opens in a new window)Credit: Jennifer Ziesch (distributed via imaggeo.egu.eu)
Properties
Type
Image
Format
JPG
Size
7.6 MB
Width
5184 px
Height
3456 px
Aspect
3:2
Brand
Canon
Model
EOS 600D
Exposure
10 mm f/11 1/400 s ISO 200
Taken
24 July 2016
Coordinates
51.7150, -116.5062
Tint
Bluish white
Submitted
28 February 2017
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