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From: Alan Sondheim <sondheim@panix.com>
To: Cyb <cybermind@listserv.wvu.edu>, Wryting-L <WRYTING-L@listserv.wvu.edu>
Subject: Freeze geology and Happy Holidays! and Happy Holidays!
Date: Sun, 31 Dec 2017 19:35:52 -0500 (EST)
Freeze geology and Happy Holidays! The Providence River is actually an estuary, a tidal basis, a place of mixed (saline, fresh) waters; this year of course it has frozen over. With the movement of the tides, ice piles up against the shore as the levels rise and fall; the result is breathtaking. We've been going out in 0f wind-chill weather, taking images in the fading light. Today for example it was 9f before the wind, the tide was high, I'm somewhat sick, but in miniature the ice looks like 19th-century Arctic and amazes us. Ironically, even though today was colder than yesterday, there were more open areas in the river - this might be the result of stress created by the tide raising the ice; by the mixing of saline and waters; by the limited generation of heat as a result; by saline water rising through broken ice; by none of this. Here are some images, with two species of gulls hunkered down on the ice - http://www.alansondheim.org/freeze17.jpg http://www.alansondheim.org/freeze08.jpg http://www.alansondheim.org/freeze11.jpg http://www.alansondheim.org/freeze21.jpg http://www.alansondheim.org/freeze28.jpg http://www.alansondheim.org/freeze26.jpg http://www.alansondheim.org/freeze46.jpg http://www.alansondheim.org/freeze50.jpg http://www.alansondheim.org/freeze51.jpg http://www.alansondheim.org/freeze52.jpg k17% ./factor 2018 2018: 2 1009 (couple of factor friends) k18% ./factor 2019 2019: 3 673 (couple of factor friends k19% ./factor 2017 2017: 2017 (isolated, dark, no factor friends) k20% ./factor 2020 2020: 2 2 5 101 (many happy factor friends) ===