Brinicles are long ice fingers that slowly form under the sea until it reaches the seafloor and freezes the ground including the creatures along its way. This happens when the salt-heavy brine accumulated within the frozen sea ice leaks out and flows down freezing the surrounding water, forming a descending tube of ice.
Watch & learn:
http://www.bbc.co.uk/nature/15835017
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This would be quite something to witness! Better dress warm though.
ReplyDeleteSlow motion ice lightning... cool!
ReplyDeleteI think I recall seeing that in Frozen Planet, by the great David Attenborough
ReplyDeleteIt flows like a waterfall becoming a river, the freeze finds the slope in the ocean floor and spreads too. Very cool image.
ReplyDeleteSo cool!
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