The World's Most Surreal Natural Phenomena Are Finally Explained

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​Blue Ice

In Iceland, you might be able to find blue ice, instead of the typical “white as snow” ice that comes with the saying. These blue ice formations occur when snow falls on the glacier, gets compressed, and simply becomes a part of it.

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That is what causes the ice’s blue color, which actually contains tiny amounts of regular ice it it.