Ahhh…I was just there in mid-May. Took one of the amphibian boats and got up close and personal. So impressive. Some of the icebergs were 3 stories high! I originally was to go in the Zodiac boat but they were cancelled due to the wind. I was holding a piece of ice estimated to be 1000 years old. Wild.
On the Lake Huron side of the northern tip of the Bruce Peninsula in Ontario, I noticed deep grooves carved in the limestone. The first ones I noticed ran north east to south west, and I took that as an indicator of the direction of the glacier. But on further inspection I noted grooves basically from every direction. What I was seeing was an environment similar to this lagoon, where calved icebergs with rocks embedded in their bottoms had been pushed by wind and current this way and that over the escarpment, leaving deep grooves in the rock.
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The ice in the lagoon moves in or out with ebb and flow. The wind may add a bit to that movement but the main force is the tide which makes a difference of 2.5 meters.
Nice, it will take quietre some time to get to the glacier front. If you were to walk to the other side, it is about 100km / 60 miles. For Tourists I'd recommend a Fjallsarlon boat tour. It's jus 9 km West of Jökullsarlon, smaller, cheaper and easier to get to the front of the glacier while still very impressive.
Water when frozen expands approximately 9%. So the tip of an iceberg is in that ballpark Shawn, depending upon the amount of air in the glacier of course.
I have a question for you Shawn. As a world traveller in retirement (and therefore with more time to think about some issues) and having been to Iceland, Alaska and having seen huge chunks of ice calving off the Perito Moreno glacier in Chile and Argentina I was wondering what your take is on the fact that 125,000 years ago (at that interglacial period) sea levels were higher than today and that therefore maybe the ice is still retreating to maybe a similar level like it was 125,000 years ago and that this is still part of the ongoing current cycle of nature rather than human interference with industry causing global warming?
@@patrickkillilea5225 thank you for your response. I ask this because at no point in the media or by geologists on TH-cam etc have I ever heard of this possible correlation. It appears that sea levels have been relatively stable over the past 7,000 years or so but that doesn't mean that the levels will remain so. When one looks at the sea level graphs since the beginning of the current ice age (from around the past 2 to 3 million years ago) there seem to be many fluctuations, sometimes for short periods and sometimes for longer. I would like to hear more about this from professional geologists.
@@TrainLordJC Nick Zentner was just talking about the Earth's temperature changes up to 1 million years ago from ice core isotope data . That was today in a Livestream about Bretz's Spokane flood.
@@hestheMaster yes I have been following Nick Zentner for several years now. He is a fantastic educator and I would love to hear his comments regarding my question because even Nick has made no direct correlation of the high sea levels 125,000 years ago after the previous glacial and today's current sea level after the most recent glacial. I guess, even with all the current knowledge that geologists have perhaps there hasn't been any significant correlation between these two sea levels. I continue to watch in fascination about further discoveries of our incredible planet much of which I have travelled through in the 70's and 80's during my youthful years with energy but no knowledge of the geology around which I was traversing. Probably quite common amongst young travellers anywhere but certainly as one gets older and wiser so many questions come up regarding the formations of everything that I witnessed during those great days.
A similar theory I've heard (not read about), is if we are in a warming phase there should be more moisture at higher elevations which would feed ice-fields and increase glacier growth.
From the vantage point of my wheelchair, thank you so much for sharing your amazing adventures!
That one piece of ice looked like a huge sapphire. It was beautiful.
Gorgeous, wasn't it!?
Amazing, beautiful sapphire color!! Thanks for explaining why the glacier's blue!
Wow! That's amazing. I've never see anything like this. Probably just as dangerous place as beautiful.
What a beautiful spot...
That is the most clear glacial ice I've ever seen. It is a beautiful location.
Ahhh…I was just there in mid-May. Took one of the amphibian boats and got up close and personal. So impressive. Some of the icebergs were 3 stories high! I originally was to go in the Zodiac boat but they were cancelled due to the wind. I was holding a piece of ice estimated to be 1000 years old. Wild.
On the Lake Huron side of the northern tip of the Bruce Peninsula in Ontario, I noticed deep grooves carved in the limestone. The first ones I noticed ran north east to south west, and I took that as an indicator of the direction of the glacier. But on further inspection I noted grooves basically from every direction. What I was seeing was an environment similar to this lagoon, where calved icebergs with rocks embedded in their bottoms had been pushed by wind and current this way and that over the escarpment, leaving deep grooves in the rock.
Beautiful place!
This is Mind-blowing... thank you for the awesomeness you bring to us
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The ice in the lagoon moves in or out with ebb and flow. The wind may add a bit to that movement but the main force is the tide which makes a difference of 2.5 meters.
Nice, it will take quietre some time to get to the glacier front. If you were to walk to the other side, it is about 100km / 60 miles. For Tourists I'd recommend a Fjallsarlon boat tour. It's jus 9 km West of Jökullsarlon, smaller, cheaper and easier to get to the front of the glacier while still very impressive.
Wow! Those are really beautiful!
Looks freezing!
Correct me if I'm wrong but as the glacier receipts you're going to see more of the older ice
Water when frozen expands approximately 9%. So the tip of an iceberg is in that ballpark Shawn, depending upon the amount of air in the glacier of course.
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The guide was handsome as hell. I never trust a handsome tour guide
This is just great! Why has the glacier been retreating? Global warming?
Yes. Nearly all of earth’s glaciers are retreating.
I have a question for you Shawn. As a world traveller in retirement (and therefore with more time to think about some issues) and having been to Iceland, Alaska and having seen huge chunks of ice calving off the Perito Moreno glacier in Chile and Argentina I was wondering what your take is on the fact that 125,000 years ago (at that interglacial period) sea levels were higher than today and that therefore maybe the ice is still retreating to maybe a similar level like it was 125,000 years ago and that this is still part of the ongoing current cycle of nature rather than human interference with industry causing global warming?
Personally Sir, I think your on to something.
@@patrickkillilea5225 thank you for your response. I ask this because at no point in the media or by geologists on TH-cam etc have I ever heard of this possible correlation. It appears that sea levels have been relatively stable over the past 7,000 years or so but that doesn't mean that the levels will remain so. When one looks at the sea level graphs since the beginning of the current ice age (from around the past 2 to 3 million years ago) there seem to be many fluctuations, sometimes for short periods and sometimes for longer. I would like to hear more about this from professional geologists.
@@TrainLordJC Nick Zentner was just talking about the Earth's temperature changes up to 1 million years
ago from ice core isotope data . That was today in a Livestream about Bretz's Spokane flood.
@@hestheMaster yes I have been following Nick Zentner for several years now. He is a fantastic educator and I would love to hear his comments regarding my question because even Nick has made no direct correlation of the high sea levels 125,000 years ago after the previous glacial and today's current sea level after the most recent glacial. I guess, even with all the current knowledge that geologists have perhaps there hasn't been any significant correlation between these two sea levels. I continue to watch in fascination about further discoveries of our incredible planet much of which I have travelled through in the 70's and 80's during my youthful years with energy but no knowledge of the geology around which I was traversing. Probably quite common amongst young travellers anywhere but certainly as one gets older and wiser so many questions come up regarding the formations of everything that I witnessed during those great days.
A similar theory I've heard (not read about), is if we are in a warming phase there should be more moisture at higher elevations which would feed ice-fields and increase glacier growth.
I like the little intro graphic. 👌
I’ll tell my awesome wife. She made it.