fast ice, flour bay
Fast ice at Lake Superior's Flour Bay- -about 100 km north of Sault Ste. Marie Ontario.
Fast ice is an extensive unbroken sheet of ice that is “fastened” to the shoreline or shoals; the ice forms from freezing temperatures (air and water), waves, drift ice, and snowfall. The Flour Bay fast ice varies from 3-6 meters in height.
This sheltered bay, on eastern Lake Superior, is part part of the Mamainse Point Formation: an area of the Midcontinent Rift System characterized by Precambrian (Mesoproterozic) volcanic activity over a billion years ago.
fast ice, flour bay
Fast ice at Lake Superior's Flour Bay- -about 100 km north of Sault Ste. Marie Ontario.
Fast ice is an extensive unbroken sheet of ice that is “fastened” to the shoreline or shoals; the ice forms from freezing temperatures (air and water), waves, drift ice, and snowfall. The Flour Bay fast ice varies from 3-6 meters in height.
This sheltered bay, on eastern Lake Superior, is part part of the Mamainse Point Formation: an area of the Midcontinent Rift System characterized by Precambrian (Mesoproterozic) volcanic activity over a billion years ago.