Lago Argentino can be seen in the foreground. At the time shown, this glacier is approx. 250 square kilometres large and 30 kilometres long. It originates from the Southern Patagonian Ice Field and calves into the lake along an ice front of 5 km length which sometimes impounds one lake branch, leading to episodic breakthroughs.

Keywords

cloudscape, glacial lake, glacial morphology, glacial processes, glacier, lake

Created

Monday 4 December 2006 by Martin Mergili in South America / Argentina (1664 visits)