Unfrozen in time - a droplet of melt forms and hangs.
by Steven Gibbons, NGI, Oslo, Norway
The most ordinary of processes happens over a huge range of spatial and temporal scales. As far as I could see, a layer of snow over lichen-covered rock was diminishing. Imperceptibly to the human concentration span but, for any randomly chosen point on this front of snow, a droplet of melt could be seen. Each at a different stage, each one would grow until breaking a threshold and falling. So many of the processes shaping the Earth happen on so many different scales and looking at the droplet felt like looking into a lens.
Taken on 13
February
2021
Submitted on 16 February 2021
Categories
Location
- Europe (3400)
- Northern Europe (798)
- Norway (147)
- Exact location (10.2424 E, 59.1664 N)
Tags
snow, melt, melting, scales, timescales, spatial scales
Colour palette
Download original file
4032 × 3024 px;
image/jpeg; 2.7 MB
Camera:
iPhone iPhone XR
Software: None (iPhone camera software)
Licence
Credit: Steven Gibbons (distributed via imaggeo.egu.eu)
Share this
Click to appreciate
Report