On the left, thawed ponds are visible, and on the right is sea water.
Thawed ponds are ponds consisting of melted ice or snow, and are found on glaciers and icebergs. Usually formed in summer and spring (in the northern hemisphere). May also form under ice.
Thawed ponds are usually darker than the surrounding ice and their size and shape can change very quickly. [1] They absorb more solar heat due to the dark color, which only increases the speed of their expansion. In the end, they wash the ice under them to the base of the glacier and can quickly disappear from the surface. [2] And when the water reaches the rock on which the glacier is located, it begins to act as a lubricant, as a result of which the glacier moves faster.
Thawing ponds on sea ice in the Baffin Sea 
Satellite- borne spectrozonal imagery showing melt ponds in Greenland
See also
- Tunnel valleys
- Glacial lake
- Glacier
Notes
- ↑ Scientists use Satellite to "Pond-er" Melted Arctic Ice . NASA (October 2, 2003). Date of treatment January 1, 2008.
- ↑ Melt Ponds on Greenland's Ice Cap . Date of treatment January 1, 2008. Archived August 2, 2007.