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21 March 2008 - 18:24:15 (808)
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Rainbow iceberg in the Antarctic
COLORED ICEBERG: The Norwegian researchers didn't believe their own eyes when they saw this in the water.
Photo: Barcroft media/Bulls Press/Øyvind Tangen
Telegraph.co.uk
Laura Clout
19/03/2008
Resembling a strange creature from the deep, this rare marbled iceberg was spotted in the waters of the Antarctic by a Norwegian sailor.
Øyvind Tangen, 62, was on board the research ship G. O. Sars when he photographed the unusual ice formation, floating a few miles off the coast of the frozen continent.
While most icebergs are white due to tiny bubbles trapped inside, which scatter the light in every direction, some pick up a multitude of colours due to various natural phenomena.
Green stripes are the result of algae growing in the ice, while brown, black and yellow lines form as the ice sheets from which bergs are formed pick up layers of sediment.
Deep blue lines can also appear when the air bubbles are squeezed out due to rapid melting and re-freezing of the ice.
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LONG STRIPE: This stripe is most likely the result of melted surface water from when the ice was on land.
Photo: Barcraft media/Bulls Press/Øyvind Tangen
Some more pictures of "the marbled iceberg" from Øyvind Tangen's son Magnus' blog "A fish blog":
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21 March 2008 - 18:45:17 (823)
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I read about it in the newspaper yesterday!!
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| Dj_Marini Follow your path but stay underground |
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21 March 2008 - 19:21:15 (848)
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| Far from a rainbow iceberg, where dem colors at? |
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21 March 2008 - 20:16:30 (886)
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| The most Photoshopped looking thing I've ever seen, lol. |
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