Tuesday, February 12, 2013

Rupture of Glacier Perito Moreno, Argentina January 2013




Pretty amazing video of a glacier/ice bridge calving in Argentina.  This particular glacier moves back and forth, periodically bisecting the lake in the video.

A this glacier is a smaller version of the ice dam that once existed in what is now Idaho/Montana.  Now consider what it must have looked like when that ice dam on the Lower Clark Fork burst and released in a matter of days a great lake equivalent volume of water into the Columbia River drainage.  

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