Elephant Foot Glacier, An astonishing geographical location on the east coast of Greenland [1800×1163]
Picture found by the Ditpub “Beautiful World” searcher.
Original was/is available from http://i.imgur.com/pICoE4k.jpg
Some learning, selected for this occasion 🙂
Elephants are large mammals of the family Elephantidae and the order Proboscidea. Two species are traditionally recognised, the African elephant (Loxodonta africana) and the Asian elephant (Elephas maximus), although some evidence suggests that African bush elephants and African forest elephants are separate species (L.
The foot (plural feet) is an anatomical structure found in many vertebrates. It is the terminal portion of a limb which bears weight and allows locomotion.
A glacier (US /ˈɡleɪʃər/ or UK /ˈɡlæsiə/) is a persistent body of dense ice that is constantly moving under its own weight; it forms where the accumulation of snow exceeds its ablation (melting and sublimation) over many years, often centuries.
Astonishing Stories was an American pulp science fiction magazine, published by Popular Publications between 1940 and 1943. It was founded under Popular’s “Fictioneers” imprint, which paid lower rates than Popular’s other magazines.
Geography (from Greek γεωγραφία, geographia, lit. “earth description”) is a field of science devoted to the study of the lands, the features, the inhabitants, and the phenomena of Earth.
Published by DitPub on 2015-12-18 14:25:19, under the category “Beautiful World”
DitPub is a for-learning-&-fun-bot by Artur Marques