Crystal Abstract by RickGot
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Description
This is a piece of ancient ice that broke off of Mendenhall glacier, then floated across the lake at it's base and washed up in the shallows on the other side.
Because the ice is so compressed from millenia of extreme pressure, it is melting slowly, with fresh ice forming and melting on the lake's surface around it. The lake itself is full of glacial loess, a super-fine silt the consistency of flour which has created some of the most fertile soils in the world, and gives the lake a slate-gray color.
Comments (13)
PSDuck
We were there last year. It is a beautiful place! Great photo!
csikigyopar
Nice work!
Myel
Original abstract! Nice shape!
flora-crassella
fantastic picture and interesting story!!!
dakotabluemoon
Cool ice is amazing stuff except for when u have to drive in it LOL.
lucindawind
fabulous!!
dadon72
Amazing how something so fragile and beautiful can shape our landscape so... I love the flow of the image. Excellent.
M2A
Very interesting photo and natural sculptural result.
durleybeachbum
Marvellous!
ragouc
Very nice
kgb224
Outstanding capture my friend.
Chipka
Amazing capture and information. I have always been curious about glacial ice, as I've never seen it. Oh, I've seen what it has done over the millenia, but I have yet to see any of it live and in person. I'd love to. This is graceful, elegant, and amazing! Wonderful work!
garegaupe
You got so many fantastic photo, I'm speechless. I'm happy to live in Norway close to the nature, but Alaska!!!!!!! If I had to leave Norway - Alaska next.