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The Mer de Glace (Sea of Ice) is a glacier located on the north face of the Mont Blanc, in the Alps. 7 km long and 200m deep, with an area of about 40 sq km. It is the second-longest glacier in the Alps, after the Aletsch Glacier. sea of ice (near Chamonix, France) Author : User:Anthere, august 2003 Released under GFDL File history Legend: (cur) = this is the current file, (del) = delete this old version, (rev) = revert to this old version. ...
sea of ice (near Chamonix, France) Author : User:Anthere, august 2003 Released under GFDL File history Legend: (cur) = this is the current file, (del) = delete this old version, (rev) = revert to this old version. ...
Jump to: navigation, search Mouth of the glacier Schlatenkees near Innergschlöß, Austria. ...
This article is about the Alpine mountain. ...
Jump to: navigation, search The West face of the Petit Dru above the Chamonix valley near the Mer de Glace. ...
Jump to: navigation, search Aletsch Glacier Aletsch Glacier Aletsch Glacier, the largest glacier in the Alps, covers more than 120 square kilometres (more than 45 square miles) in southern Switzerland. ...
It originates at an elevation of 3,900 m, and descends down to 1,400 m. It was once easily visible from Chamonix, but has been shrinking and is now barely visible from below. Chamonix-Mont-Blanc (45°55′8″ N 6°51′55″ E; elevation 1040 m), or more commonly, Chamonix is a town and commune in eastern France, in the Haute-Savoie département, at the foot of Mont Blanc. ...
It is in the Chamonix valley, it was the first place in the valley to have a custom made tourist attraction.
The Mer de Glace, like all glaciers, is constantly renewed under the effect of two phenomena: accumulation, notably due to snowfall and ablation, essentially due to melting. The Mer de Glace flows permanently under the effect of its own weight, crusting crevasses, seracs or pockets of water to form, depending on the type of ground. Crevasse on the Gorner Glacier, Zermatt, Switzerland. ...
Seracs in firn at 10000 on the Winthrop Glacier of Mount Rainier in Washington, USA A serac (originally from Swiss French sérac, a crumbly white cheese) is a steep ridge or pillar of ice formed between two crevasses of a glacier. ...
The glacier's speed, although not perceptible to the naked eye, is considerable. From more than 120 meters a year in its upper part, the Mer de Glace moves about 90 meters a year in the region of Montenvers, which is about one centimeter per hour. View of the train and the Mer de Glace The Montenvers Railway or Chemin de fer du Montenvers is a mountain railway line in the Haute-Savoie region of France. ...
As soon as the tensions intensify, the glacier is deformed and crevasses appear. These are notably transversal. When there is intense crevasse activity, the breaking up of the glacier by the crevasses forms blocks of seracs.
The crevasses, of variable depth, depending on their positioning, may reach fifty metres. They always form in the same place because of the shape of the glacial valley in which the glacier flows. Disappearing downstream, they are renewed upstream.
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