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The blue color is sometimes wrongly attributed to Rayleigh scattering, which is responsible for the color of the sky. Rather, water ice is blue for the same reason that large quantities of liquid water are blue: it is a result of an overtone of an oxygen–hydrogen (O−H) bond stretch in water, which absorbs light at the red end of the visible ...
Icebergs may also appear blue due to light refraction and age. Older icebergs reveal vivid hues of green and blue, resulting from a high concentration of color, microorganisms, and compacted ice. [5] An iceberg of “electric blue” colour in the waters off Sermilik fjord near Greenland in 2009 was named by locals the "blue diamond". [6]
The same water in a smaller bucket looks only slightly cyan, [1] and observing the water at close range makes it appear colorless to the naked eye. The intrinsic color of liquid water may be demonstrated by looking at a white light source through a long pipe that is filled with purified water and closed at both ends with a transparent window.
For every towering wall of blue-tinged ice, every Viennetta-slab of pristine, swirly white, every pebble-dashed shard scraped from the base of a glacier floating on top of the frigid waters, there ...
A large piece of compressed ice, or a glacier, appears blue, as large quantities of water appear blue, because water molecules absorb other colors more efficiently than blue. The other reason for the blue color of glaciers is the lack of air bubbles.
Blue-ice areas have a generally smooth and often [1] rippled appearance, a blue colour [2] and a sparseness of bubbles in the ice. [3] This light blue colour is a consequence of the absorption of light by ice and air bubbles encased within it, and is the source of the name "blue-ice area".
Long before it became Glacier National Park, the park says, the Kootenai called the area “Ya·qawiswit̓xuki, meaning ‘the place where there is a lot of ice.’. There’s still ice. The park ...
The most popular way to see Glacier Bay is by boat. Peter Christian, chief spokesperson for Public Affairs for the National Park Service’s Alaska region, said highly regulated cruise ships "go ...