Monday, January 12, 2009

Ice Volcanos

The time is now for "ice volcanos" to form along the shoreline.
"ice volcano", Lake Superior

When the wind and temps are just right to cause the surf to splash up on the ice banks, the water from the surf keeps freezing, and the ice sometimes forms a hole that the water keeeps shooting through every time a wave hits the shoreline. These ice volcanos don't last long, as the ice keeps forming further and further out under these conditions, or it warms up and they get smashed to shreds. Pretty cool.

Oh, and Happy Birthday MOM!

2 comments:

  1. wow i have never seen anything like that before! I never even new that there was such a thing called a ice volcano. That is an amazing picture and i will show it to all my friends.

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