Images of Ice Volcano Phenomenon


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1 24-bit jpg 8-bit jpg Observer flees as the underestimated wave approaches the ice volcano.
1 24-bit jpg 8-bit jpg Jublious observer cheer for 7 meter high icy plume.
1 24-bit jpg 8-bit jpg "Eruption" of sand laiden water and slush. The height of the plume is approximately 8 meters.
1 24-bit jpg 8-bit jpg Observer caught in the icy wind blown plume of the ice volcano.
1 24-bit jpg 8-bit jpg Vertical icy plume excites observer.
1 24-bit jpg 8-bit jpg Looking across the pack ice at the landward side of an arc. Crater of active cone seen covered with brown slush.
1 24-bit jpg 8-bit jpg Looking across the pack ice to an arc builing a top a rock reef. The center ice volcano is "erupting".
1 24-bit jpg 8-bit jpg Arc of ice volcanoes built above a rock reef.
1 24-bit jpg 8-bit jpg Looking at a breached cone from the wave's perspective. This cone was renedered inactive when the ice shelf built out the the next arc.
1 24-bit jpg 8-bit jpg Shadows of the observes projected onto the "erupting" ice volcano. Notice "erupted" blocks of material on surface.
1 24-bit jpg 8-bit jpg Plume of ice and water are blown atop the observer.
1 24-bit jpg 8-bit jpg An arc that failed to form. Prograding ice (pack ice) as far as the eye can see.
1 24-bit jpg 8-bit jpg Another arc that failed to form.
1 24-bit jpg 8-bit jpg Observers standing atop an adjacent ice volcano cast their shadow on the "erupting" one. High breaking waves can be seen out in the lake.
1 24-bit jpg 8-bit jpg Icy "eruption" with shadows for scale.
1 24-bit jpg 8-bit jpg Inactive breached cone.
1 24-bit jpg 8-bit jpg Tall inactive breached cone.
1 24-bit jpg 8-bit jpg Landward side of inactive cone.
1 24-bit jpg 8-bit jpg Two arc sets. Small arc set in foreground composed of 3 breached shield cones. Arc in background composed of 5 breached stratovolcanoes.
1 24-bit jpg 8-bit jpg Ice boulder deposits from strong "eruptions" (ie, very windy day!).
1 24-bit jpg 8-bit jpg Paul standing in the vent of an ice volcano. Cave below is where the waves splashed up for the "eruptions".
1 24-bit jpg 8-bit jpg Gretchen sitting in the entry way of a symmetric ice volcano.
1 24-bit jpg 8-bit jpg Paul's head emerging from the bowels of a symmetric ice volcano.
1 24-bit jpg 8-bit jpg Paul standing infront of many meter high cone.
1 24-bit jpg 8-bit jpg Beginning of a shield volcano.
1 24-bit jpg 8-bit jpg Breached shield showing stratigraphy.
1 24-bit jpg 8-bit jpg Dual cones that formed along an arc. Right cone has two vents.
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Photographs by Michael Dolan and Paul Kimberly
Modified on February 7, 2011
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