{"id":8916,"date":"2014-01-18T15:06:24","date_gmt":"2014-01-18T20:06:24","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/all-geo.org\/highlyallochthonous\/?p=8916"},"modified":"2014-06-14T13:30:55","modified_gmt":"2014-06-14T18:30:55","slug":"antarctica-field-log-ice-in-a-multitude-of-forms","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/all-geo.org\/highlyallochthonous\/2014\/01\/antarctica-field-log-ice-in-a-multitude-of-forms\/","title":{"rendered":"Antarctica field log: Ice in a multitude of forms"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"A<\/span>\"A<\/span>Sifting through more than 30 gigabytes of photos and videos from our trip to Antarctica is taking longer than we expected. (The start of the semester might have something to do with that too.) To tide you over until we are ready to properly blog our adventures, here are some photos and videos from a 48-hour period of our trip that provide a glimpse of the many faces and forms of ice in Antarctica.<\/p>\n

\"Icebergs<\/a>

Icebergs in Neko Harbor, 23 December 2013. Photo by A. Jefferson<\/p><\/div>\n

Icebergs are formed from broken off bits of glaciers or ice sheets. Icebergs are larger than a house (bigger than 300 m2<\/sup>) and stick up more than 5 m above the water line. The ones above are pretty small icebergs. They can get a lot bigger: as we cruised through Antarctic Sound<\/a> – also referred to as ‘Iceberg Alley’ as it acts as a bottleneck for bergs moving out of the Weddell Sea – on 22nd of December, we zig-zagged through a series of massive tabular bergs that dwarfed our ship.<\/p>\n

\"Tabular<\/a>

Tabular Icebergs in Antarctic Sound, 22 December 2013. Photo: Chris Rowan.<\/p><\/div>\n

Keep an eye out for the part of this video where a small section of this tabular iceberg’s sheet sides calved off into the sea.<\/p>\n