Zoom shot of a wide veil of water at the foot of the Skogafoss Waterfall, Southern Iceland
The 62m high Skogafoss Waterfall, a popular tourist attraction in Southern Iceland, is a result of isostatic uplift of the land, following the release of billions of tonnes of ice weight at the end of the Pleistocene Ice Age. Rivers, flowing south, found themselves plunging over the edge of the rising cliffs of the former coastline to reach the sea. Fluvial erosional processes have cut back the falls, the turbulent scouring action of water in the plunge pool undermining the cliff, so it collapses in time and the waterfall retreats upstream. Here we see the wide veil of water plunging to the foot of the waterfall, the figures walking on the gravel in front of the plunge pool giving an idea of scale.
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Location: Skogafoss Waterfall, Skogar, Eyjafjoll, Southern Iceland
Photo credit: © robert harrison / Alamy / Afripics
License: Royalty Free
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