Glacier break

Khumbu Icefall

A smaller glacial break on Mount Saint Helens .

A glacier break , usually referred to as an ice break , occurs when a glacier breaks off over a higher terrain level .

There, the gradient changes so much that it comes to extreme crevices and the ice rips open in both transverse and longitudinal directions. Often, single, many meter high ice columns, so-called seracs , also arise .

A well-known ice break is the Khumbu ice break on the south side of Mount Everest , or the Turkish tent city on Obersulzbachkees of Großvenediger (Austria), of which nothing has survived today.

Web links

Commons : Eisbruch  - Album with pictures, videos and audio files

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Turkish tent city . In: Salzburger Nachrichten : Salzburgwiki .