Why is glacier ice blue?
Because the red (long wavelengths) part of white light is absorbed by ice and the blue (short wavelengths) light is transmitted and scattered. The longer the path light travels in ice, the more blue it appears.
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Juneau Icefield
Photograph of the Juneau icefields of southeastern Alaska that contain more than 140 glaciers which extend over 1,500 square miles (3,900 square km). Fieldwork in Alaska for the Terrestrial Records of Holocene Climate Change project from July 29 to August 10, 2016.
Mapping the glacier's edge in Glacier National Park.
Mapping the glacier's edge in Glacier National Park.
Blue Ice
Ice is pushed away from the hull of the Coast Guard Cutter Healy Aug. 26, 2009.
Surprise Glacier
Surprise Glacier (in background), Harriman Fiord, western Prince William Sound.
Columbia Glacier Calving
A dramatic iceberg calving from Columbia Glacier in Prince William Sound, Alaska. The iceberg has just broken free from under the water and shot to the surface, spinning towards the ice face. The ice cliff here is about 70 m (229.7 ft) tall. Icebergs are calved as stress fractures in the glacier merge, eventually resulting in a piece of ice cracking off and falling into
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Denali Fault: Canwell Glacier
Peter Haeussler prepares to measure the offset of a crevasse on the Canwell Glacier.
Muir Glacier and Muir Inlet 1980
This ship-deck-based August 1980 photograph of Muir Glacier and Muir Inlet, Glacier Bay National Park and Preserve, St. Elias Mountains, Alaska, shows the nearly 200-ft-high retreating tidewater end of Muir Glacier with part of its face capped by a few angular pinnacles of ice, called séracs. Note the icebergs in the ship's wake in the lower right side of the photograph.
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