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Stressed Lake Ice Crust
Azalea Lake, Aiken SC, 11 Jan 2010.
Houndslake County Club has three 9-hole golf courses. Each of them contains a lake. There are also at least four smaller ponds. This is a lake on Houndslake's Azalea course. This is sort of a close-up of the surface showing stress patterns on the crust of ice completely covering the surface.
Interestingly, at this time Dogwood Lake (only about 500 yards away) had only narrow crusts of ice at a few points around the shoreline. I suspect the different in freeze characteristics MAY have been the total volume of water. Dogwood Lake has perhaps 4 times the surface area of this lake. Also, Dogwood MAY be deeper on average, so it could contain something like an order of magnitude more water volume.
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Date Time : 2010:01:11 07:46:13
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