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Facts About the Athabasca Glacier
There is already a lot said about the Athabasca Glaciers. However, you may want to know that Athabasca Glacier will not be with us for a long time. It is sliding with gravity and melting as much as a few centimetres per day. It may be another 100 years. But it will be forever with us in the photographs that thousands of people took. You may also want to know that the current melting water is the purest known, but again, the most recent snowfalls carried a lot of pollution, and it may not be anymore. Athabasca Glacier is the only glacier that you can actually walk on, and guess what? You could be standing on something that is hundreds of years old and can melt in a matter of minutes once you pick a piece of it.
Photo taken at Athabasca Glacier, Columbian Icefields, Canada.
~ Anna
Facts About the Athabasca Glacier
There is already a lot said about the Athabasca Glaciers. However, you may want to know that Athabasca Glacier will not be with us for a long time. It is sliding with gravity and melting as much as a few centimetres per day. It may be another 100 years. But it will be forever with us in the photographs that thousands of people took. You may also want to know that the current melting water is the purest known, but again, the most recent snowfalls carried a lot of pollution, and it may not be anymore. Athabasca Glacier is the only glacier that you can actually walk on, and guess what? You could be standing on something that is hundreds of years old and can melt in a matter of minutes once you pick a piece of it.
Photo taken at Athabasca Glacier, Columbian Icefields, Canada.
~ Anna
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I'll put your link on my other blog: http://my-daily-image.blogspot.com
Our grandsons will see them in pictures only.
Maybe they will tell us: "Why didn't you work to stop melting?"
That's a very good shot of the glacier and, as you said, your image will forever it. It's too bad that all of these natural beauties are slowly disappearing. It just goes to show that the world constantly changing.
Happy trails.
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Wonderful photo !
I really enjoy your bird photos. With my little all purpose camera I can never get those wonderful close up shots.
I want you to know I visit your blog often and so enjoy it but usually by the time I read it 40+ friends have already left a message... I am so happy that I am in the first 10 or so that today I can say... Fabulous !
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Your had done great with this tricky to exposure white subject.
In Denver, there was St. Mary's Glacier, which used to attract snowboarders who would ride along it until it ended suddenly in a steep, rocky drop-off. The rescue crews got tired of going in there to retrieve broken snowboarders, so the authorities took down all the signs showing the way to the glacier. Now it's "disappeared" to most people.
Happy new week! :-)
The big problem, to me, is pollution. Making things poison. All for money, too, by the way. And killing for money -- from wars that keep corporations in business to whaling ships from Japan killing the last whales on the oceans. To those who are cutting the oldest trees alive on the West Coast. I worry about these things. We began
when we arrived here by killing the Native Americans and then the Buffalo and then deforested the country and then mined the minerals and pumped the water from underground rivers. I really get upset by water fountains that spews perfectly good drinking water up in the air or that is used to flush toilets and wash cars.
We are responsible for everything. Nature, left alone, takes care of itself.
Sorry for the squawk.
I suppose the NL will be under sea level in a hundred years. Not good!!!!!!!!
Nice shot.
Preserving the glacier with a photo will help future generations appreciate the beauty of nature.
Very nice picture Anna.
First thank you for all your kind comments on my blog, I love to read your comments and I appreciate them very much.
It's also the same with the glaciers in Switzerland, they are melting too, rapidly. And mountains fall apart because of the missing frost inside. I'm sorry, my English is bad and my scientific knowledge is also not the best....LOL...but I'm sure you'll know what I'm talking about. You're the smart one here...smile...
Thanks for sharing this interesting article, Anna!
Big hug to your little sunshine at home.
Susanne
The water may be pure, but the glacia itself looks like it has a lot of dirt and rocks in it?
Sad that it is disappearing, but in an odd way, sort of comforting to know that as I get older, I am not the only thing on earth being affected adversely by gravity.
I don't know too much about glaciers, but I seem to remember that as they melt in warmer climates, the water lubricates the bottom of the glacier. This makes them move downhill even faster.
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Thank you for the visit!
We have some glaciers on Norway's mountain tops.
Thank you for your comment on my blog :)
Anna its a Brilliant photo
I have never seen it before in real!!
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How sad this beauty is melting away. I love the fact that glacier holds that pure of water. It's great to think that something has lasted this long that is good.
Have super day!
Hugs, JJ
Take Care,
Peter
Thanks so much for your comment George. Appreciated. Anna :)
Thanks so much for your thoughts. Appreciated. Anna :)
I definitely know what you are saying, no worry, your English is perfect my friend.
Thanks so much again for your kind visit and comment.
Anna :)
Will you probably be very small if standing there, lol. The photo is more a close up, so this one isn't that big.
Yes they do have some dirt in them, but I think lot of it showing is from the mountain rocks, because in some areas the rocks under glacier are starting to get exposed. Also glacier itself push the rocks away from the mountains, there are many crushed ones. Probably high winds contribute to the spreading.
Lol, yes you are not the only thing affected by the gravity on this Earth, lol, that was funny yet true statement.
Will you said: 'I don't know too much about glaciers, but I seem to remember that as they melt in warmer climates, the water lubricates the bottom of the glacier. This makes them move downhill even faster.' - I think you may be right, I don't know about it, but makes sense.
Will thanks so much for your informative comment always. Appreciated my friend. Anna :)
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This is one gorgeous picture! It is a shame that it is melting away, but hey...it is all part of evolution (things come and go - even though humans have contributed for its fast melting).
Loved your card (as I love all of them so far) :D!
Hugs to Matthew and to yourself!
Cheers
Hope your new year is going great!
--JB
Thank you for visiting my blog and for your always nice and kind comments. Have a wonderful weekend!
MedaM
Again thanks so much for your kind words my friend. Stay warm and have a good weekend also. Anna :)
My compliments!
Bye
Dario
Wow! That is a awesome photo, my friend! :)
«Louis» will be posting his own (rather than his guest photographer's) images of the coast along the Monterey Peninsula at the end of February.
Have a nice day and Keep Shooting
Nina