Yuri (of Canukistan) has dug up a bit more information on those ice pictures I posted below.
Snopes.com did a little piece on it, exposing the misnomer "frozen waves."
Here is a post talking about blue ice and how it is formed, with some great shots from Southern Patagonia. Included in the bottom of the post are the photos in question. The photographer is named as Tony, and there is a link to his Antarctic photoset, named "Dome C."
Therefore, it seems reasonable to assume that the photos are from the location in Antarctica called Dome C. To finish off the intarweb research, here is the obligatory wiki entry for the location as well.
This may provide Trappin' Pat more information with which he can further explain the ice formations -- though he did a pretty amazing job already in the comments below.
Enjoy the white tips of your personal celestial sphere,
Bp
[photo source: linked UADDIT blog]
3 comments:
Dome C is a high point on the Antarctic Ice Sheet (10,607 feet ASL). The blue ice is acient ice-cap ice that is shoved vertically (perhaps by a mountain under the ice) and then ablating in place (a good air photo would be of great help in my analysis). The steep faces are caused by the vertical faces receiving more solar radiation than the top due to the low sun angle. The flat ice the observers are standing on is the dominant charcteristic of the ice sheet. The dust & rock-free ice is another clue to the ice-submerged environment that is the Antarctic Ice Sheet. If you can EVER find an excuse to visit Antarctica, do whatever it takes to go the place: it is otherworldly beautyful.
Thanks again, great info.
more ice awesomeness:
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/pages/live
/articles/technology/technology.html
?in_article_id=536928&in_page_id=1965
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