Lamplugh Glacier. Glacier Bay Seascapes.
by Connie Fox
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Lamplugh Glacier. Glacier Bay Seascapes.
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Connie Fox
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Photograph - Outdoor Color Photo
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The convoluted lines and face of Lumplugh Glacier grace the tranquil natural beauty of one of America's most scenic areas, Glacier Bay National Park and Preserve in southeastern Alaska. Note the unusual and fascinating patterns in the aqua ice as it meets the sea. Lumplugh Glacier is therefore a tidewater glacier, rather than a piedmont glacier. Piedmont glaciers do not descend to the sea or waterline, but tidewater glaciers do. The Malaspina Glacier is an example of a piedmont glacier; Lamplugh, tidewater.
So many interesting lines, shapes, and patterns comprise this image, including stunning glacial peaks and cliffs, shimmering water, the glacial face of aqua ice, a hint of blue sky, and three small pointed formations in the sea. (That's not a boat.)
Lamplugh Glacier is an eight-mile-long glacier that leads north to its 1961 terminus in Johns Hopkins Inlet. The glacier was named by Lawrence Martin of the U.S. Geological Survey around 1912 for English geologist George Williams Lamplugh, who visited Glacier Bay in 1884.
Lamplugh is roughly 160 feet high at the face and about a mile wide. According to my Alaskan source, this tidewater glacier has advanced and receded significantly in the past century.
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Lamplugh Glacier. Glacier Bay Seascapes
Fine-art photography by Connie Fox
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October 7th, 2015
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