This up to 1000 years old snow has metamorphosed    
into highly pressurized glacier ice that contains     
almost no air bubbles.     
Thus it absorbs the visible light despite the     
scattered shortest blue fraction, giving it its distinct     
deep blue waved appearance.     
This cavity in the glacier ice formed as     
a result of a glacial mill, or moulin.
Rain and meltwater on the glacier surface is    
channelled into streams that enter the glacier     
at crevices. The waterfall melts a hole into the     
glacier while the ponded water drains towards lower     
elevations by forming long ice caves with an     
outlet at the terminus of the glacier.     
The fine grained sediments in the water along     
with wind blown sediments cause the frozen     
meltwater stream to appear in a muddy colour     
while the top of the cave exhibits the deep blue colour.
Due to the fast movement of the glacier of about 1 m    
per day over uneven terrain this ice cave cracked up     
at its end into a deep vertical crevice, called cerrac.     
This causes the indirect daylight to enter the ice cave     
from both ends resulting in homogeneous     
lighting of the ice tunnel.     
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