"Ancient Ice"

Watercolor framed size 16 x 20"
Price: $220
Antarctica is the world's coldest desert. It rarely snows here, but when it does, it sticks. Much of Antarctica's ice is millions of years old, and has never melted. Minerals and other contaminants gathered over centuries to create colors of the rainbow on ancient ice. Sixty-eight percent of the world's fresh water lies locked in the unmelting polar ice cap. If it did melt, sea level would rise 160 feet.


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Michelle Van Berkom
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Bremerton, WA 98312
Tel: 360.275.4327