#ice volcano

[krakenmare]

New Horizons: Frozen, former lake of liquid nitrogen, located in a mountain range just north of Pluto's informally named Sputnik Planum (July 14, 2015)

[ilikeit-art]

Ice volcano

An ice volcano appears every winter in the Almaty region. The effect of the eruption is created by artesian water, which beats out of the ground. In the cold season, the water freezes and the height of the volcano reaches 14 meters.

[earthstory]

Volcanoes of Ice Instead of Fire

We typically associate volcanoes with fire, but in winter some temporary ice volcanoes appear in certain areas, such as the Great Lakes of North America.

Ice volcanoes can form when an ice shelf develops on a large water body. As the ice shelf builds, waves push floating ice against the shelf as they crash into it, piling ice and snow into a cone. Waves also formcracks in the ice as they travel under the shelf. Waves then force water up through the cracks and into the growing cones, which can be as much as 10 meters high. Initially these ice volcanoes will be right at the edge of the ice shelf but as the shelf continues to expand, the volcanoes get cut off from the water. Even so, if waves are high enough, these volcanoes may continue to erupt and grow as waves push under the ice shelf and the water finds the volcano as an outlet, similar to Kiama blowhole previously coveredhttp://on.fb.me/161dYcj.

Ice volcanoes can be very unstable and the ice around them may be thin, so it is best to observe them from a distance rather than risk falling into icy water.

See an ice volcanoes erupt in this YouTube video:https://www.youtube.com/watch?feature=player_embedded&v=-DlX_DR93WQ

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Image credit: Jack Pal https://www.flickr.com/people/49054780@N02/ https://www.flickr.com/photos/49054780@N02/5151896399

Read more: http://www.geo.mtu.edu/volcanoes/ice/ http://www.wpr.org/ice-volcanoes-are-popping-shores-great-lakes http://www.weather.com/science/nature/news/great-lakes-oddity-ice-volcanoes-20140301

[lifelongwandering]

on the shores of Lake Michigan 

[humanoidhistory]

A side view of ice volcano Ahuna Mons, which is 2.5 miles tall and 10.5 miles wide, located on dwarf planet Ceres.

[terebelli]

Ice volcano. Letchworth State Park, Castile, New York.

📷 John Kucko

[jupiterandbeyondtheinfinite]

Ice volcanoes?!?!?! WHAT THE FUCK?!?!

My astronomy notes from when we learned about Saturn's moon, Enceladus. Turns out they're actually geysers, not volcanoes...

[coolinterestingnews-blog]

Ice volcano Ahuna Mons discovered on Ceres

Ice volcano Ahuna Mons discovered on Ceres

A cryovolcano (colloquially known as an ice volcano) is a theoretical type of volcano that erupts volatiles such as water, ammonia or methane, instead of molten rock. Collectively referred to as cryomagma or ice–volcanic melt, these substances are usually liquids and can form plumes, but can also be in vapour form. The volcano, which is named Ahuna Mons, was formed relatively receantly.

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