Photo of the ice of the Briksdalsbreen glacier in Norway. I think it's a fantastic piece of nature to look at. Very fascinating how the glacier is made up of layers of snow and ice and how this creates erratic formations. And it's special to think that the glacier was formed about 2500 years ago and is still 'alive' because of the melting and refreezing of snow.
A glacier is formed when snow falls in the high mountains in bowl-shaped niches and that snow does not melt away in the summer. Every year a layer of snow can be added. This snow layer, which survives the summer, is called 'firn'.
The annual snow layers are compressed by their own weight. The density of the firn increases at the bottom and the snow crystals change shape under the increasing pressure. The larger crystals 'eat' the smaller crystals, as it were, and ice is formed.
In deeper ice, the pressure becomes so high that the ice becomes viscous. The ice can then slowly slide due to gravity.
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