Extreme Glacier Calving, Hubbard Glacier, Alaska

because the sounds that it makes but let's talk a little bit about the Geo geology of the earth to see just why do we have glaciers well first why is a glacier the simple answer to that is when snow does not completely melt from year to year it builds up think about thousands of years of snow little thawing eventually the massive weight of the snow once it reaches about 100 feet deep becomes ice that go right compresses more and more to form glacial ice this is the closest I've ever been your bottom a little bit going show like this and it was closer than we were at Mendenhall if you hear the sounds of thunder it's the sound of the ice breaking under the pressure and look at the striations see those lines at the bottom like the rings and trees shows the impressions and if we're lucky if we're lucky we'll see a piece of ice break off yeah I'm deceitful uh-huh likewise the glaciers have existed in the mountains ever since the Ice Age the glacier flow those the snow and ice through the entire length of the glacier in 100 years or so the glass is less than years old therefore and stuff left over from the Ice Age you know cover twice takes more than appears to get to the terminus right here there's quite a show there's quite a show going on right over to the right the water know what that's the newest say don't break it up so much we got here had plenty we didn't have one of us and very good climbing party and he noticed that Hubbard later had logged on Russell doors enter our seals sea lions island or business events back in behind that point the word got out and said people in rooms from all over the world urged right here on Janka table to try and rescue the marine mammals trapped by the ice dams the water behind the dam rose to 19 feet and this is called what is called a glacial lake outburst flood because once that was 90 feet high and widely broke through the Glacial wall and the glacier eventually receded and it was the second largest glacial lake outburst flood ever so Oh something fell over there look water splashing what on the other the Wow right there on the point you just saw one of the biggest having they I certainly I have ever seen in self do dc1 right out from in and cleared that part of the flavor away between that very point and Gilbert point wavering is that is the area poisoned and or friendly keep your eye out because it looks like we're having some of the most today I've ever experienced just keep taking are right in front of our eyes seated rolling and turning in Kavanaugh itself and as it's doing that you the flower that is producing and you can see how I'm working the water is around it and that is exactly the thing the rocket particles that are trapped within the ISIS it comes down 400 years from the top and there you can see how it has capped off and is causing that rock flower to actually make that milky look to the water uh sealions Oh Sehun yeah she said she was talking about the bubble netting and she said she has often seen the bubble netting in past times in this Bay on average but not today you guys can't bother we were I've been building around we spent the first part of the morning here we tried up on the helipad was too hard to shove around and I had a better view down here trying the head we were on the right hand side and will gradually move away - now and then I just been hopping back and forth being here and the other side of the road yeah I thought they were they're done realize to me that we would obtain and we used to be a lot closer three shots that I believe steady looking right at it all nice including that one oh yeah yeah I was just sitting there looking at it a lot of people were saying as I took my camera man that was crazy Ellis I got three great shots of the cabin including that big one I was looking right at it when it fell oh the rope game went over there uh-huh oh nice yeah we were is aa Rous on one dies first it's outstanding so you see the little corner there you see a glacier coming down through the crevasse there and then I guess that's part of it and but the main wood is what going up and both oh there's one over there Wow you you

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Keywords: Glacier (Geographical Feature Category), Ice Calving, Hubbard Glacier (Glacier), Alaska (US State)

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Length: 19min 14sec (1154 seconds)

Published: Wed Apr 15 2015