| Chasing Ice Volcanoes 6 Samuel J. Ciurca, Jr., Rochester, New York |
| 'Ice Pads' Floating in Lake Ontario |
| Like lily pads, 'Ice Pads' float, grow and die in water. The photos here show several aspects of the pads observed along the lake shoreline west of Rochester, New York. |
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| The edge of the shelf. Below the fresly snow-covered Ice Volcanoes, lies a lake with circular structures frozen in the lake waters. These were previously floating in water like lily pads drifting and bobbing up and down. In the distance is the dark, cold water of the lake and an interesting array of clouds above. Photo February 27, 2005. |
| Shelf edge showing Ice Volcano split in half and below, frozen 'Ice Pads' lying on sheets of ice. When fully formed, the pads became victims to the lake around them that was beginning to freeze solid. Also see photo below. |
| ABOVE: Ice pads were glued to the lake when the water froze to make a sheet of ice. Later a warm day and waves beneath broke up the sheet of ice into large angular fragments which then began to freeze again at various angles to the plane of the lake. This could probably be described as an ice breccia. While Lake Ontario rarely ever completely freezes over, Lake Erie (being much shallower) does. In the photo above, Canada is roughly 50 miles beyond this frozen land of ice. |