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Jade Ice

14 Feb 2014 14 18 697
Sometimes ice melts, even in the Antarctic - usually near rocky areas where heat radiates. Small streams then run on the ice before plunging down crevasses where they eventually freeze again. This ice is denser and a different colour than the surrounding ice formed from compressed snow. When the glacier finally breaks away to form icebergs, the frozen stream shows as rare jade coloured ice.