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RE: Fw: ice sculptures

Fascinating!  Looks a bit like stalagmite formation.  I'd suggest that groundwater may be upwelling at spots on the beach and freezing in layers as it exudes.
 
Victoria Harris
UW Sea Grant Institute
UWGB MAC 212
2420 Nicolet Dr.
Green Bay, WI 54311-7001
Ph. 920.465.2795
Fax 920.465.2143
harrisv@uwgb.edu

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Subject: Re: Fw: ice sculptures


Richard and Krystalynn - 

It doesn't seem to appear in any of the  categories we assembled for LakeSuperiorStreams.org.  See http://lakesuperiorstreams.org/understanding/ice.html   and its link to http://www.crrel.usace.army.mil/ierd/ice_guide/iceguide.htm  to the Army Corps.

If someone turns up more information, would you please let us know so we can add it to our website.  

Thanks...Rich Axler


At 03:13 PM 12/14/2005 -0500, Richard L Whitman wrote:



	Kystal Potts at our station  took these pictures on the beach yesterday.  They are quite unusual formations.  Does anybody know how they are formed.  
	
	
	Richard Whitman
	Research Ecologist/Station Chief
	Lake Michigan Ecological Research Station
	219-926-8336 Ext. 424
	1100 North Mineral Springs Road 
	Porter, IN 46304 
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	Krystal Potts/BRD/CONT/USGS/DOI 
	
	12/13/2005 03:59 PM 
	
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	ice sculptures 
	
	
	
	I have never been to the beach in the winter time, so I was pretty amused by these ice sculptures along the shoreline.  I can't wait to see some shelf-ice. 
	
	
	
	Krystalynn Potts
	U. S. Geological Survey
	1100 N. Mineral Springs Rd.
	Chesterton, IN 46304-1225
	Tel: 219-926-8336, ext 445
	Fax: 219-929-5792
	Email: kpotts@usgs.gov 
	

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