Petermann Glacier Aka Blue River In Greenland

Monday 20 June 2016

Petermann Glacier Aka Blue River In Greenland

Petermann Glacier aka Blue river in Greenland is the largest floating glacier in the Northern Hemisphere. Petermann is located in North-West of Greenland. Petermann glacier is forming icebergs. It connects the Greenland ice sheet with the Arctic Ocean. Most of Greenland is covered by extensive ice layer, known as the " ice sheet of Greenland ", which stretches 2,400 kilometers from north to south, from 1,100 kilometers at its widest point. Ice from 2 to 3 kilometers thick serves as proof that the ice sheet begins to melt, it is a concern of many scientists and environmentalists.

Today Petermann Glacier is quicly melting

During the summer, the ice melts, causing a small flow streams, which ultimately merge into larger streams and eventually become rivers. Water has amazing dark color of aquamarine. The breathtaking landscape of the white ice blue rivers, and small black spots formed by atmospheric soot, can not but arouse admiration. narrow or wide, they flow curves, like a magic river in a fairy land. Blue River, Petermann Glacier, the largest floating glacier in Greenland. flickr/Eric Philips

Floating ice tongue has a width of 15 km and a length of 70 km, the thickness of which ranges from about 600 m in the base and about 30-80 m at the edges. It is assumed that about 80% of the mass of the ice is melted water. Greenpeace expedition found that the glaciers lost up to 100 square meters in the near future. kilometers of ice. This is enough to supply water to 10 years a city like Sydney, a population for 2006 was estimated to be approximately 4.28 million.

But this river has a flip "side of the coin", as has the risk of extinction of the world, which is supported by an annual increase in water level in the oceans. Studies have shown that the ice began to melt in Greenland is 4 times faster than a decade ago.