A fishing enthusiast posted amazing pictures of Antarctic icebergs that have become beautifully striped. It's as if they are in a beauty competition with marbles.
The photos were shot by Øyvind Tangen four days ago. If you look closely, the iceberg has dark stripes or layers which appear to have built up in different periods of time.
The dark stuff is made of ice crystals with different density, or perhaps it's ice with different salt density, according to the writers at
Afishblog. Photoseek reports that the iceberg originally formed by horizontal layers of snow depositing and compressing into a glacier. It thenbroke off and what you see is a floating chunk of glacier. "Differential melting and wave erosion caused the iceberg to roll onto its side, flipping the horizontal layers into the vertical lines seen here,” according to Photoseek.
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