Ice scraping the seafloor creates grooves and ridges that are partly covered with anchor ice, made of big blades of ice growing from below. Compression ridges push some ice down into seawater and open up caves in between, creating ice holes that is commonly used by seals as breathing holes.
Location
Turtle Rock
Antarctica
Created by Hubert Staudigel on Thursday, 8 November 2012
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