heamit
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Beautiful view of a glacier on Spitspbergen
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Hill
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It looks like the glacier has recently calved here, dumping tons of ice into the bay and sending out a series of concentric waves moving out from the site of origin.
Video of a glacier calving
Edited by Hill (04/08/07 11:14 PM)
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heamit
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Wow that's great spotting, Hill! Cool!  
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mspelto
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Gorgeous, more calving was soon to follow you can note, as these two glaciers continue to retreat.
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Hill - Well found...ker-PLUNK!!! 
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Very pretty view! I couldn't help noticing that the 'glacier' placemark clearly placed in the water appears to be at an elevation of 125 m!  We must be looking at some fossil elevations. For fun I traced out the contours for 10 m , 50 m and 100 m.
I wonder what the topography dates to?
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Hill
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Here's another piece of evidence of glacial melting, posted about six months earlier, but from far southern latitudes.
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