Hey Mom + Dad!
New Zealand is amazing! I wish you were here. I can’t wait to show you all of my pictures and tell you everything. We have seen so much interesting and cool stuff. This postcard is a picture of dead ice which we saw at the Fox Glacier on the South Island of NZ. Dead ice is a block of ice that breaks off of a retreating glacier when the glacier is retreating at fast rates. The block will become buried in sediment which acts as an insulator to the block of ice. Over time this block will become exposed and no longer be insulated, thus resulting in the melt out of the block of ice. As the ice melts it forms what is called a kettle lake. See you soon!
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