Dawes Glacier Endicott Arm Fjord v
by Rick Bures
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Dawes Glacier Endicott Arm Fjord v
Artist
Rick Bures
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Photograph - Photograph
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Dawes Glacier, Endicott Arm Fjord, vertical shot. A snow-garbed mountain looms ominously in the background, enshrouded dramatically by clouds, while in the foreground the blue ice of the glacier snakes its way down to the waters of the seaway. Dark tracks within the glacier help the eye track its patch, while jutting icebergs yet to calve add interest at the glacier’s face. Glaciers are great sheets of moving ice, hundreds of feet thick or more. Dawes Glacier is approximately three hundred feed high at its face, with another three hundred feet below the waterline. Dawes Glacier is located at the end of the glacier-carved fjord Endicott Arm, off of the Stephens Passage seaway, in southern Alaska. Glaciers carve out valleys and sculpt mountains, grinding solid rock into sediment, which forms stripes in the glacier when two glaciers run together. The deep blue ice is from the bottom of the glacier and is very dense and hard, owing its color to the absorption of the redder light waves. This deep blue ice is thought to be ten thousand years old. Icebergs calve off of the face of the glacier, floating out into the seaway. Cruise ships often travel up the fjords of Endicott arm and Tracy Arm to visit Dawes Glacier and Sawyer Glacier, coming to within about a quarter of a mile of the face of the glacier in the deep waters of the fjord. See my many other photos of Dawes Glacier, Endicott Arm Fjord, and Alaska.
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August 10th, 2017
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