Ice toes are shoreline features formed when gentle, low-amplitude water waves ripple up and down a sufficiently cold surface, forming and then extending layers of ice with intervening gaps. Such a process happens up to a point when the rate the ice washes or melts away roughly is offset by the new deposition. They can take the shape of horizontal pedestals, or toe-shaped hanging forms such as these, created at the shoreline edge of a snow accumulation.
Norman OK (25 Dec 9) Looking S
35.2142, -97.376Ice Toe Row
Ice toes are shoreline features formed when gentle, low-amplitude water waves ripple up and down a sufficiently cold surface, forming and then extending layers of ice with intervening gaps. Such a process happens up to a point when the rate the ice washes or melts away roughly is offset by the new deposition. They can take the shape of horizontal pedestals, or toe-shaped hanging forms such as these, created at the shoreline edge of a snow accumulation.
Norman OK (25 Dec 9) Looking S
35.2142, -97.376