Looks just like the area behind my brother’s house in the winter. I miss the woods. :(
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This up to 1000 years old snow has metamorphosed into highly pressurized glacier ice that contains almost no air bubbles. Thus it absorbs the visible light despite the scattered shortest blue fraction, giving it its distinct deep blue waved appearance. This cavity in the glacier ice formed as a result of a glacial mill, or moulin.
Rain and meltwater on the glacier surface is channelled into streams that enter the glacier at crevices. The waterfall melts a hole into the glacier while the ponded water drains towards lower elevations by forming long ice caves with an outlet at the terminus of the glacier. The fine grained sediments in the water along with wind blown sediments cause the frozen meltwater stream to appear in a muddy colour while the top of the cave exhibits the deep blue colour.
Due to the fast movement of the glacier of about 1 m per day over uneven terrain this ice cave cracked up at its end into a deep vertical crevice, called cerrac. This causes the indirect daylight to enter the ice cave from both ends resulting in homogeneous lighting of the ice tunnel.
understanding how things work makes them even more awesome
“In Norse myth, Huginn (“thought”) and Muninn (“memory”) are the two ravens of the chief god Odin. Each morning Odin sends forth these ravens and they fly over the earth. At night they return and sit on his shoulders to tell him what they heard and saw”
Because I feel like I could use an owl!Brutus on my tumblr about now. An owl!Brutus being almost sneaked up on, no less. ;)
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Caspar David Friedrich, Monastery Graveyard in the Snow, 1817/19. Photographic reproduction; original destroyed in WWII.
