A glacier is a hugh mass of frozen water. Although it is as hard as rock, glacial ice moves. Gravity makes the glacier flow downhill, and this causes crevasses to form in its surface. These can range from a few centimetres to several metres wide, and from a couple of metres to several kilometres long, and can be as deep as 30 and even 50 metres. It is only beneath the surface that the ice becomes malleable, the pressure of the material above it causing it to creep onwards without breaking. The uneven ground beneath the Karlinger Glacier in the Hohe Tauern national park in the Austrian Alps forces the ice to crack open in certain areas.
TITLE |
FROZEN WATER |
LOCATION |
Karlinger Kees, Central Alps, Austria |
DATE |
September 2002 |
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TECHNIC |
Hasselblad body, Zeiss lens |
FORMAT |
medium format, 6 x 6 cm |
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