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Feb 24, 2019: Baikal Dzen We’ve looked at Lake Baikal in Siberia before, the oldest, and deepest lake in the world. Quote:
The sun heats the rock which in turn melts the ice under it. OK, so why is the rock so high? He says that melted ice refreezes and pushes the rock up. Nope, no way, not going to happen. I know ice is strong like Babushka, splits rocks, and will lift tall buildings with a single uumph. But I also know ice, like me and Mother nature, takes the path of least resistance... always. Therefore no reason to push the rock up when the ice can spread out. In your freezer ice and frost migrate to a colder surface if there’s moving air, that’s how the self defrost works. So maybe as the sun shines on the ice the wind wears it away and the rock is actually shade protecting that pillar. But that rock disrupts the wind causing it to swirl, cutting that hollow. But I’m guessing. Canada says, ho hum, not impressed, have an egg. I'll be at Tim Hortons if you find something worth showing me. link limey Sunday Feb 24 09:46 AM "Вот такие камни можно встретить на льду Байкала в районе Сарминского ущелья. Днем они нагреваются от солнца, растапливают лед под собой, ветреность этого места помогает создать тонкую ножку под камнем." xoxoxoBruce Sunday Feb 24 10:03 AM Ah, thank you. So I was half right with my guess, not shade but heat like the quote said. I was right about the wind carving out the hollow under it, but still doesn't explain why the rock is perched so far above the apparently flat ice all around the rock. I still can't buy the ice pillar pushing the rock up. Degrees Sunday Feb 24 12:03 PM Well, when ice freezes, it expands. If the outside ring on ice were to freeze first, then when the inner core froze, I could see it being forced to push up instead of out. Gravdigr Sunday Feb 24 12:56 PMPeriod/decimal should be a comma. 12,248 sq miles, twelve thousand, two hundred forty-eight square miles. Just saying, man, put that hatchet down... BigV Sunday Feb 24 01:02 PM Quote:
I have seen ice cubes in the ice tray in the freezer with little spikes in the center of the the cube sticking up like the tops of Hershey kisses. No rocks though. Not just me, apparently. Gravdigr Sunday Feb 24 01:10 PM I'm having a little trouble buying that any water anywhere in Russia is considered even close to clean. Quote:
So, there is the possibility, however slight, that I may not know wtf I'm talking about. Gravdigr Sunday Feb 24 01:12 PM Quote:
Usually with hot water in the cube makers. xoxoxoBruce Sunday Feb 24 01:23 PM Yes, I've seen that in ice cube trays and other containers, but it's always constricted. Gravdigr Sunday Feb 24 02:18 PMMe, too. I had to go see. xoxoxoBruce Sunday Feb 24 03:52 PM I should have but I've learned in the past it's dangerous to wander off in the middle of a post. limey Sunday Feb 24 05:27 PM Quote:
And the little warmed spot of water in Baikal is constricted by the surrounding ice. No? Sent from my iPad using Tapatalk xoxoxoBruce Sunday Feb 24 09:47 PM No, you can see the is flat ice or a groove depression around the rock. as the melted water freezes there's nothing to constrict it. the rock is considerably higher. xoxoxoBruce Wednesday Mar 6 08:58 AM Awhile back I posted somewhere in the Cellar an illustration that was a cross section of the Great Lakes. Now somebody has taken that illustration and Gravdigr Wednesday Mar 6 12:52 PM Urrbody settle the fuck down. xoxoxoBruce Saturday Jun 1 12:40 AM Here's another set of fantastic pictures at Lake Baikal taken last winter. Some very different from previous pictures. Diaphone Jim Saturday Jun 1 12:29 PM I have thought for many years that Lake Baikal is the only place in Russia that I would like to visit. xoxoxoBruce Saturday Jun 1 02:58 PM That Orange van made me think I'd want the windows open just in case. But then most people who die being dumped in cold water are dead in less that a minute. Diaphone Jim Wednesday Jun 5 12:54 PM This popped up from somewhere this morning: xoxoxoBruce Friday Jun 7 12:39 AM Quote:
SPUCK Saturday Jul 6 03:51 AM This is like the elephant in the room no one is mentioning... xoxoxoBruce Saturday Jul 6 08:11 AM Wind blew it across the ice? Happy Monkey Sunday Jul 7 03:27 PM Or a rockslide at the edge, and it skittered across the ice.
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