. British Antarctic expedition, 1907-9, under the command of Shackleton : reports on the scientific investigations ; geology. Fig. 1 Fig. -2. Fig. 3 [To face p. 180 SEA ICE 181 with them considerable fall of temperature, they helped to reunite these shatteredfragments through freezing the interstitial strips and patches of open water. Plate LIII. Fig. 2 shows the appearance of the sea in McMurdo Sound nearHut Point at the end of February 1909. Pancake Ice {eierkuchen eis). We observed that ice of this type developed whenthe surface of the sea was bemg gently rippled by the wind during a c
. British Antarctic expedition, 1907-9, under the command of Shackleton : reports on the scientific investigations ; geology. Fig. 1 Fig. -2. Fig. 3 [To face p. 180 SEA ICE 181 with them considerable fall of temperature, they helped to reunite these shatteredfragments through freezing the interstitial strips and patches of open water. Plate LIII. Fig. 2 shows the appearance of the sea in McMurdo Sound nearHut Point at the end of February 1909. Pancake Ice {eierkuchen eis). We observed that ice of this type developed whenthe surface of the sea was bemg gently rippled by the wind during a comparativelylow temperature. At first the sea presented a soupy appearance. On the firstoccasion which we saw this (on February 18, 1908) we thought, as it had beenimmediately preceded by a very heavy three days blizzard, that this soupy appear-ance was due to large quantities of partly water-logged drift snow. This ideasubsequently proved to be incorrect. The pancake ice shown on Plate LIII. Fig. 2developed gradually out of countless ice crystals, which on this occasion also imparteda distinct soupy appearance to the sea. It might also be
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