Meltpool with Cryoconite on Petermann Glacier

Meltpool with Cryoconite on Petermann Glacier. The dark rubble - mud, rocks, parts of meteorites and human pollution gather in heaps on the ice - as they are dark, they attract heat, and eventually melt neat holes in the glacier. In 2010 and 2012 Petermann calved ice islands totalling 400 square kilometres.

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Copyright: 2009 Dave Walsh
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Contained in galleries: Exhibition: The Arctic: Another World?, Greenland and the Arctic, The Cold Edge, Icebergs and Ice, The Current Climate, Arctic Nocturne, Brussels, The Arctic: On Our Watch

Meltpool with Cryoconite on Petermann Glacier. The dark rubble - mud, rocks, parts of meteorites and human pollution gather in heaps on the ice - as they are dark, they attract heat, and eventually melt neat holes in the glacier. In 2010 and 2012 Petermann calved ice islands totalling 400 square kilometres.