{"id":12127,"date":"2014-12-08T08:21:03","date_gmt":"2014-12-08T16:21:03","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.kootenay-lake.ca\/?p=12127"},"modified":"2014-12-08T08:33:35","modified_gmt":"2014-12-08T16:33:35","slug":"bubbles-in-ice","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.kootenay-lake.ca\/?p=12127","title":{"rendered":"Bubbles in ice"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>The stunning beauty of bubbles in the ice of a frozen pond\u00a0could cow a fantasy artist.\u00a0The accompanying pictures were taken by Irina Peters and Doug Thorburn in the subalpine high above Kootenay Lake. <\/p>\n<p>Bubbles had formed in the ice when freezing had forced dissolved gasses out of solution. The gasses dissolved in the water had come from pond sediments that had outgassed as a result of the bacterial decomposition of algae and detritus: carbon dioxide from respiration, methane from methanogens, and hydrogen sulphide from sulphate-reducing bacteria.<\/p>\n<p>There\u00a0appear to be three different structures in these pictures: frost crystals on the surface, columnar bubbles, globular bubbles. The suspicion is that the columnar bubbles might be CO<sub>2<\/sub>, while the large bubbles could be burps of methane.\u00a0Can anyone add insights?<\/p>\n<p>(A posting two years ago showed <a href=\"https:\/\/blog.kootenay-lake.ca\/?p=6230\" title=\"\">pond bubbles in the summertime<\/a>.) <\/p>\n<p>Three structures are seen in the ice of the mountain pond: frost crystals, columnar bubbles, globular bubbles.<br \/><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-12130\" src=\"https:\/\/blog.kootenay-lake.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/12\/bubbles141116asDT.jpg\" alt=\"\" onclick=\"return false\" onmousedown=\"return false\" width=\"720\" height=\"480\" \/><\/p>\n<p>The columnar bubbles are possibly the result of CO<sub>2\u00a0<\/sub>coming out of solution.<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-12129\" src=\"https:\/\/blog.kootenay-lake.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/12\/bubbles141116bsDT.jpg\" alt=\"\" onclick=\"return false\" onmousedown=\"return false\" width=\"720\" height=\"480\" \/><\/p>\n<p>This scene rivals a fantasy artist&#8217;s creations\u00a0of alien cityscapes.\u00a0<br \/> <img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-12128\" src=\"https:\/\/blog.kootenay-lake.ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/12\/bubbles141116csDT.jpg\" alt=\"\" onclick=\"return false\" onmousedown=\"return false\" width=\"720\" height=\"480\" \/><br \/><span style=\"font-size: 8pt;\">The pictures of Irina Peters and Doug Thorburn are used with permission.<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&nbsp; The stunning beauty of bubbles in the ice of a frozen pond\u00a0could cow a fantasy artist.\u00a0The accompanying pictures were taken by Irina Peters and Doug Thorburn in the subalpine high above Kootenay Lake. Bubbles had formed in the ice &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/blog.kootenay-lake.ca\/?p=12127\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[12],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-12127","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-weather"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.kootenay-lake.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12127","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.kootenay-lake.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.kootenay-lake.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.kootenay-lake.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.kootenay-lake.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=12127"}],"version-history":[{"count":49,"href":"https:\/\/blog.kootenay-lake.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12127\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":12179,"href":"https:\/\/blog.kootenay-lake.ca\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/12127\/revisions\/12179"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.kootenay-lake.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=12127"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.kootenay-lake.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=12127"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.kootenay-lake.ca\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=12127"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}