Elusive first visuals of the collapsed glacier!! Are y'all seeing the size of this thing? 🫣
The collapsed ice & rock debris would've rushed down this valley building up momentum rapidly.
Looking at the scars, I suspect debris would've slammed up to 100 m (300ft+) high on the opposite walls.
Tom even gives you his layered Illustrator files, complete with MAPublisher georeferencing; scroll around to see how one of the best living cartographers does it
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John William Strutt (Lord Rayleigh) was born 183 years ago today. Among his many contributions to physics, one of the most famous bears his name: Rayleigh scattering.
It describes how tiny molecules in the atmosphere scatter shorter wavelengths of sunlight (blue) far more than longer ones (red). Because of this effect, the light reaching our eyes in the sky is mostly blue, giving us the familiar color of a clear day.
Rahmetli dostum Prof. Dr. Aral Okay ile 1999 yılında yayınladığımız ve ülkemizdeki yerbilimleri yayınları içerisinde en çok atıf alanlardan biri olan Türkiye Tektonik Birlikleri haritası PTT tarafından hatıra pulu olarak basılıyor
BEFORE / AFTER #Blatten Lake 🌊
Lake level evolution upstream the Blatten deposit between yesterday evening and this morning!
Coloured dots indicate the 2 same buildings 🏠
Source of images: Pomona
INCREDIBLE !!
Here we are... 😱😱😱
After days of overloading and cracks propagating, Birch Glacier collapsed over Blatten today at 3:24 pm and dammed the Lonza river...
Devastating! 😭
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The river level has already started to rise behind the dam in Blatten! 🌊
A lake is underway... 😨
To 'mitigate' flooding hazard in the valley, the Ferden dam lake, located 6 km downstream has been emptied.
📷 SRF