crystal iceberg's by plancarpin

Tiniteqilaaq - Greenland Some explanations there: this strange colour reflects an ultra old iceberg (most probably over 100.000 years). The atoms of oxygen and hydrogen are soo compacted that the ice is not more white.. first point.. second point, what we are seing, was under the sea some days or weeks ago (40 to 50m). This because of the melting above the water surface, the gravity's center of the iceberg makes it to flip over...like an heavy pancake..letting us to see the hidden part of it... sorry, it was a bit dictatic..!

Uploaded: Aug, 04 2010 | Taken: Jul, 13 2010| Viewed: 55 times  | 9 votes Camera: Panasonic | Model: DMC-FZ50 | Exposure 10/13000s, ISO 100 | FLength: 12mm | SW: Ver.1.0

pesu - Aug, 04 2010 12:08pm Wow, I love the pic (and your explanation, too)! mistybleu - Aug, 04 2010 03:08pm This is truly lovely. jacko1 - Aug, 04 2010 03:08pm Info on pics is so important, without it this is just another pic, with it ths is magic, well done! plancarpin - Aug, 05 2010 05:08am Petra and Amanda, thanks for your nice comments plancarpin - Aug, 05 2010 05:08am Tony, thanks for comments... apart from explanations, after a while on the sea, it was like magic to see blue icebergs instead of the "usual" white ones jacko1 - Aug, 05 2010 05:08pm Thanks for your reply, I have just been informed by ' she who must be obeyed' i.e. my wife, that, and I quote, "colour is percieved due to refraction of light waves, look it up" a bit over my head, I still think it's a nice pic;:-) plancarpin - Aug, 07 2010 10:08am Dear Tony, Madame the Minister of your Interior is perfectly right! the colours our eyes see are depending on their abality to reflet the white light of sun rays. And as you know, each colour is having a specific wave length, and blue is the major colour which absorbs the white light.. this is also why the sky is blue and the sea as well.. now another question subsists in this scientific exchange: why are some icebergs white and others blue? and now, the answer is detailled under my pic.. I was travelling with a pair of astro-physicians, I thank them for their explanations jacko1 - Aug, 07 2010 04:08pm Your added information will be passed on to 'she who must be obeyed' many thanks for this, she now thinks that I have more than one brain cell:-)