Open AccessIce in the Ocean
Author(s) -
Jeffries Martin O.
Publication year - 2001
Publication title -
eos, transactions american geophysical union
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.316
H-Index - 86
eISSN - 2324-9250
pISSN - 0096-3941
DOI - 10.1029/01eo00183
Subject(s) - geology , ridge , snow , white (mutation) , arctic , arctic ice pack , paleontology , oceanography , geomorphology , biochemistry , chemistry , gene
“You are in a world of white.…The sun burns low on the horizon through a scintillating suspension of ice crystals.…All around lies a pure white landscape of snow, like a…field, with…gentle hummocks, valleys and occasional rocky lumps softened by the snowy mantle. The field is bordered by what looks like a white stone wall.…Great white rock monoliths rear into the sky, while others lie at random at their feet and in some places there is a semblance of a regularly laid pattern of blocks. It is a pressure ridge…Beneath your feet are three metres of sea ice. Beneath that are five thousand metres of water. You are walking on the Arctic Ocean.”