Bubble, Bubble, Boil and Trouble by brewgirlca
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This is what really makes Lake Abraham so famous, although this year it was not so good. The ice in the lake is richly filled with columns of pancake shaped bubbles. If you look near the top you can see some small columns.
As I said earlier, Lake Abraham is a reservoir and it has flooded a forested valley bottom. As the flooded forest decomposes it releases gases. During the winter the lake freezes from the top down and the bubbles get trapped beneath the ice. Then the lake freezes deeper and a new layer of bubbles get trapped and so on and so on as it freezes deeper and deeper. Since the gases are being released from the same spot they form frozen columns of bubbles.
This year the area had a very cold snap in November so the lake froze deep before the columns could form. So sadly for me they were deep down and the columns were poorly developed.
Comments (7)
mtdana
Nice capture and very interesting process, you can definitely see bubbles at different depths in your image. What is the size of the larger bubbles?
magnus073
This is so cool Roxie, and I'm so glad you shared the history of it with us also.
drifterlee
Very cool bubbly shot!
Tracesl
cool - excellent
FaeMoon
How truly intriguing this is. I would have never guessed at the nature's process in this. Thank you for sharing this phenomenon!
dragonmuse
Fascinating. Thank you for sharing.
giulband
Have you been able to grasp how nature is sometimes surreal and amazing! congratulations