Feb 24, 2019: Baikal Dzen

[xoxoxoBruce]

We’ve looked at Lake Baikal in Siberia before, the oldest, and deepest lake in the world.
It holds the cleanest fresh water, something like 20% of the world’s unfrozen fresh water.
Area = 12.248 sq mi
Volume = 5,666 cubic miles
Max. depth = 1,642 m (5,387 ft)
The surface gets up to about 45 F(7 C) in the summer but freezes over with pretty thick ice.
Anyway, I found these pictures supposedly from Baikal.

Rocks on the lake Baikal get heated from the sunlight every now and then and melt the ice beneath. After the sun is gone, the ice turns solid again thus creating a small stand for the rock above. It is called the Baikal Dzen.

Apparently I don’t understand what he’s saying, because it doesn’t make sense to me..
The sun heats the rock which in turn melts the ice under it. OK, so why is the rock so high?
He says that melted ice refreezes and pushes the rock up. Nope, no way, not going to happen.
I know ice is strong like Babushka, splits rocks, and will lift tall buildings with a single uumph.
But I also know ice, like me and Mother nature, takes the path of least resistance... always.
Therefore no reason to push the rock up when the ice can spread out.



In your freezer ice and frost migrate to a colder surface if there’s moving air, that’s how the self defrost works.
So maybe as the sun shines on the ice the wind wears it away and the rock is actually shade protecting that pillar.
But that rock disrupts the wind causing it to swirl, cutting that hollow.
But I’m guessing.



Canada says, ho hum, not impressed, have an egg.
I'll be at Tim Hortons if you find something worth showing me.

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