Tidewater glacier. Glaciers are rivers of ice that form when compacted snow from high ground turns into ice and flows downhill under its own weight. A tidewater glacier is one that terminates at the sea. It is these glaciers that form icebergs as chunks of ice break off into the sea. Photographed in Svalbard,an Arctic archipelago governed by Norway | |
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