Small icebergs calved from glacier

[The_Traveler]

This is obviously not a great picture, just a try at showing some facts about Iceland. This is the melt from the Vatna Glacier (Vatnajökull). These little bergs are about the size of a length of a large bus and the melt water makes a fast, dense stream from the lagoon into the sea.

In the far background across this large lagoon is the foot of the glaciers and beyond that are the mountains.

The water is cold and seems rather thick and oily (which it is because water at temperatures close to freezing has 50% more viscosity than water at 80 degrees F.

This is iceland as seen from space and the Vatna Glacier is the large mass on the right.

This is a larger magnification and this picture was taken approximately from a vantage at the tip of the red arrow.

 

[snowbear]

Awww - baby bergs.


So, did you straddle the tectonic boundary with one foot in each of North America and Europe?

 

[The_Traveler]

That was part of the Golden Circle trip and, on the only free time we had, we chose, rightly or wrongly, to visit the SE coast and see the glaciers and waterfalls.
If we could have been guaranteed a shift in the tectonic plates that moves mountain, allowed magma to erupt up to the surface and cause untold death and destruction, we probably would have chosen the Golden Circle.
We did drive around the Rekjanes Peninsula and visited the geothermal vents and then the Blue Lagoon, both of which probably owe their existence to the mid-atlantic ridge.

 

[JacaRanda]

That was part of the Golden Circle trip and, on the only free time we had, we chose, rightly or wrongly, to visit the SE coast and see the glaciers and waterfalls.
If we could have been guaranteed a shift in the tectonic plates that moves mountain, allowed magma to erupt up to the surface and cause untold death and destruction, we probably would have chosen the Golden Circle.
We did drive around the Rekjanes Peninsula and visited the geothermal vents and then the Blue Lagoon, both of which probably owe their existence to the mid-atlantic ridge.

Would love to hear how or what locals think about any climate change in their lifetimes.