# Are the pictures in this link an iceberg or frozen tidal wave? **URL:** \ **Category:** Factual Questions\ **Created:** [January 25, 2007, 2:17pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/are-the-pictures-in-this-link-an-iceberg-or-frozen-tidal-wave/389406 "2007-01-25T14:17:42Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 14\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![diggleblop](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/ac91a4/32.png) [@diggleblop](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/diggleblop)\ **Post date:** [January 25, 2007, 2:17pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/are-the-pictures-in-this-link-an-iceberg-or-frozen-tidal-wave/389406/1 "2007-01-25T14:17:42Z")
[Link](http://www.harkvideos.com/arctic.htm) ---
**Author:** ![Kalhoun](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/3bc359/32.png) [@Kalhoun](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Kalhoun)\ **Post date:** [January 25, 2007, 2:19pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/are-the-pictures-in-this-link-an-iceberg-or-frozen-tidal-wave/389406/2 "2007-01-25T14:19:13Z")
No clue, but damn! That’s a bitchin’ picture! ---
**Author:** ![Contrapuntal](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/c/e274bd/32.png) [@Contrapuntal](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Contrapuntal)\ **Post date:** [January 25, 2007, 2:22pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/are-the-pictures-in-this-link-an-iceberg-or-frozen-tidal-wave/389406/3 "2007-01-25T14:22:19Z")
[QUOTE=Kalhoun] No clue, but damn! That’s a bitchin’ picture! [/QUOTE] Didja scroll down? It gets better. ---
**Author:** ![CalMeacham](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/calmeacham/32/35_2.png) [@CalMeacham](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/CalMeacham)\ **Post date:** [January 25, 2007, 2:27pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/are-the-pictures-in-this-link-an-iceberg-or-frozen-tidal-wave/389406/4 "2007-01-25T14:27:43Z")
One way to keep water from freezing is to keep it in motion or agitation. I don’t think you _can_ freeze a tsunami, or a tidal wave. It doesn’t look like an iceberg, which are usually calved off a glacier or other ice pushed out over the edge of water – those generally break off, and have jagged edges and clear break points. This thing has a lot of rounded surfaces (along with fractures where it looks like it was pushed up). It reminds me of the Paradise Ice Caves formed on the Paradise Glacier on Mt. Rainier – that has rounded surfaces because it’;s formed by melting ice, and a lot of the smoothness is due to running water moving over the ice surface. This looks as if water had run over an ice surface somewhere, melting and smoothing it, then a chunk of it fractured and got lifted up. Where did you find this? Do you know where it’s located? ---
**Author:** ![Sage\_Rat](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/sage_rat/32/399_2.png) [@Sage\_Rat](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sage_Rat)\ **Post date:** [January 25, 2007, 2:28pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/are-the-pictures-in-this-link-an-iceberg-or-frozen-tidal-wave/389406/5 "2007-01-25T14:28:49Z")
Well glaciers grow by freezing water above them. Those look, to me, like what you would see when a stream flowing over ice slowly freezes from the underside, up. ---
**Author:** ![Mangetout](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/mangetout/32/19_2.png) [@Mangetout](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mangetout)\ **Post date:** [January 25, 2007, 2:33pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/are-the-pictures-in-this-link-an-iceberg-or-frozen-tidal-wave/389406/6 "2007-01-25T14:33:19Z")
Looks to me like _annual layers_ - could it be a big chunk of ice that’s toppled over, turning the layers through 90 degrees? ---
**Author:** ![lieu](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/c2a13f/32.png) [@lieu](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/lieu)\ **Post date:** [January 25, 2007, 2:36pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/are-the-pictures-in-this-link-an-iceberg-or-frozen-tidal-wave/389406/7 "2007-01-25T14:36:57Z")
Extraordinary. Never seen anything like that. Just guessing but it looks like older, deeper ice that’s been pushed out, rotated and then wind weathered. Some of the fracture patterns almost resemble thrust belt geology. ---
**Author:** ![Phlosphr](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/c68b51/32.png) [@Phlosphr](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Phlosphr)\ **Post date:** [January 25, 2007, 2:41pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/are-the-pictures-in-this-link-an-iceberg-or-frozen-tidal-wave/389406/8 "2007-01-25T14:41:52Z")
It’s called a [Jade Berg](http://www.highfrequency.net/antarctic/diary/2001sept/sept3.htm) . Site explains some… ---
**Author:** ![toadspittle](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/c0e974/32.png) [@toadspittle](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/toadspittle)\ **Post date:** [January 25, 2007, 2:50pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/are-the-pictures-in-this-link-an-iceberg-or-frozen-tidal-wave/389406/9 "2007-01-25T14:50:21Z")
A bunch of jade berg definitions here: > **[jade berg](https://waywordradio.org/jade_berg/)** > > jade berg n. an iceberg made of highly compressed greenish ice. Editorial Note: Great photos of jade bergs can be found here, here, and here. (source: Double-Tongued Dictionary)… Seems as though no one really knows where they come from. Though that link and this one > **[STARSLOTS88 Jadi Tempat Singgah Penggemar Gates Of Olympus](https://cybamuse.com/)** > > STARSLOTS88 menjadi pilihan menarik untuk menikmati berbagai game favorit yang sedang populer. mention a theory: > [@](#): > > hese unusually coloured icebergs are believed to have once been a part of the bottom of an ice shelf that scraped along the ocean bottom. In these cold yet highly salty conditions, the ice may have melted and solidified again, incorporating some green algae. ---
**Author:** ![diggleblop](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/ac91a4/32.png) [@diggleblop](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/diggleblop)\ **Post date:** [January 25, 2007, 2:53pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/are-the-pictures-in-this-link-an-iceberg-or-frozen-tidal-wave/389406/10 "2007-01-25T14:53:26Z")
> [@](#): > > Where did you find this? Do you know where it’s located? No, unfortunately I don’t know anything about it. I found the link to this site posted on [reddit.com](http://reddit.com) though… ---
**Author:** ![Kalhoun](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/3bc359/32.png) [@Kalhoun](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Kalhoun)\ **Post date:** [January 26, 2007, 12:22pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/are-the-pictures-in-this-link-an-iceberg-or-frozen-tidal-wave/389406/11 "2007-01-26T12:22:13Z")
[QUOTE=Contrapuntal] Didja scroll down? It gets better. [/QUOTE] Fucking breathtaking. Just beautiful! ---
**Author:** ![Phlosphr](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/c68b51/32.png) [@Phlosphr](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Phlosphr)\ **Post date:** [January 26, 2007, 2:22pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/are-the-pictures-in-this-link-an-iceberg-or-frozen-tidal-wave/389406/12 "2007-01-26T14:22:29Z")
[QUOTE=Kalhoun] Fucking breathtaking. Just beautiful! [/QUOTE] I love your blunt nature 🙂 ---
**Author:** ![Polycarp](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/82dd89/32.png) [@Polycarp](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Polycarp)\ **Post date:** [January 26, 2007, 4:33pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/are-the-pictures-in-this-link-an-iceberg-or-frozen-tidal-wave/389406/13 "2007-01-26T16:33:01Z")
I knew watching 1950s cartoon shows would prove useful in later life sooner or later. Clearly, what we have here is an example of the phenomenon discovered by those intrepid scientists Drs. R.J. Squirrel and B.J. Moose when they visited the Arctic, viz., the _ **permanent waves** _. 😛 ---
**Author:** ![Kalhoun](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/k/3bc359/32.png) [@Kalhoun](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Kalhoun)\ **Post date:** [January 30, 2007, 11:38am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/are-the-pictures-in-this-link-an-iceberg-or-frozen-tidal-wave/389406/14 "2007-01-30T11:38:14Z")
[QUOTE=Polycarp] I knew watching 1950s cartoon shows would prove useful in later life sooner or later. Clearly, what we have here is an example of the phenomenon discovered by those intrepid scientists Drs. R.J. Squirrel and B.J. Moose when they visited the Arctic, viz., the _ **permanent waves** _. 😛 [/QUOTE] I wonder if it smells like beauty parlor…y’know…old lady smell laced with ammonia.