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fast ice / lake superior

Last of the Lake Superior fast ice- -about 100 km north of Sault Ste. Marie- -Kilometer 1148, Ontario Highway 17.

This pressure is about 5-6 meters thick as of April 1.

 

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.

 

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.

 

 

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Uploaded on April 6, 2017
Taken on April 1, 2017