Frozen tsunami wave in Antarctica?
A series of images has been floating around email for a while about a supposed tsunami wave that froze in midair as it came up and over other Antarctic ice.
There is one site here that has the other photos and a good round of controversy. One person suggests it is “blue ice.” Most say that it’s not a tsunami wave. Our hearts would like to believe that it is though, so let’s give it a little home here on Rapidsea.
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Posted on December 1, 2007
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this is a very scary reality the tempuratures had to have been catastrofically cold but the fact is that these tempuratures may not be fiction. As also in the case of the mammoth frozen in midwalk, how can this happen?
this wave-like formation may infact be caused by earthquakes that have raised the ice above the ground and creating what is seen in this image.
the blue colour of the ice can be attributed to the same reason that water appears blue; it is a result of an overtone of an OH molecular stretch in the water, which absorbs light at the red end of the visible spectrum.