Antarctica Wave (17 - 640x480 pics)

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Jan 15, 2008 | 05:36 PM

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It can't be water wave breaking thru... Last time I took high school geography Antartica was still a frozen landmass, not an icemass like the North pole.

Those are some pretty kewl pics though

Jan 15, 2008 | 05:41 PM

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There'* still ice shelves with water under them.

Jan 15, 2008 | 07:54 PM

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I'd believe that the pictures are real, probably not the explanation though.

Jan 15, 2008 | 08:30 PM

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I wonder if it is possible that pressure was keeping the water liquid, and when it broke free of the crust, the decompression allowed it to flash freeze? I've done that with a beer bottle in the freezer.

Jan 29, 2008 | 01:41 PM

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Jan 29, 2008 | 02:51 PM

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Originally Posted by PontiacDad

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Originally Posted by John Deere Boy

Which raises the question: how did it form?

My best guess is an Ice Tongue.
Which is the glacier moving out onto the ocean and breaking off.

Taken from Wiki

Agreed. I guess it would be possible for some water to seep through, making hundreds of different layers of ice, which would explain the lines that are seen in the ice. But I highly doubt that temperatures seen even in Antarctica are cold enough to flash freeze tons upon tons upon TONS of water.