Antarctica Icebergs

Icebergs in the Antarctic area sometimes have stripes, formed by layers of snow that react to different conditions.

Blue stripes are often created when a crevice in the ice sheet fills up with meltwater and freezes so quickly that no bubbles form.

When an iceberg falls into the sea, a layer of salty seawater can freeze to the underside. If this is rich in algae, it can form a green stripe.

Brown, black and yellow lines are caused by sediment, picked up when the ice sheet grinds downhill towards the sea.

These came to me in an e-mail, apparently taken by Norwegian sailor Oyvind Tangen from aboard a research vessel. The iceberg photographs were snapped in an area several hundred miles north of the Antarctic.

Don't Take Shiny Stuff Into the Ocean

I Want This as a Screen Saver

Drifters of the deep from Eugenia Loli-Queru on Vimeo.

You Should Be Sorry

The Cephalopodcast is a really cool blog that helps me keep you up to date on various ocean related activities.

Today, I sat down at the beginning of Power Class and decided to quickly skim over my Reader posts.

Right.

This is the only post I got to. 50 Interesting Ocean Articles on Wikipedia. I got so engrossed in reading it, that when Kathy called my room looking for one of you, I had no memory of him going to the library (although every other person in the room swears I gave him permission).

So don't even open this if you don't have several hours to spend.

Enjoy!

Vampire Squid are Awesome

Found at National Geographic, who got the video from the Monterey Bay Aquarium. Yes. The aquarium where I want to take you.

They live about half mile down in the ocean, so really aren't seen that much. I didn't know they existed. Of course, I have never been half mile down in the ocean, either.




Be sure to watch him go on the defensive and turn inside out.

Aren't they beautiful!