Harry is a U.K.-based staff writer at Live Science. He studied Marine Biology at the University of Exeter (Penryn campus) and after graduating started his own blog site 'Marine Madness,' which he continues to run with other ocean enthusiasts. He is also interested in evolution, climate change, robots, space exploration, environmental conservation and anything that's been fossilized. When not at work he can be found watching sci-fi films, playing old Pokemon games or running (probably slower than he'd like).
Dozens of eerily perfect circles of slushy ice, known as"ice pancakes," have been floating on the surface of a Scottish river after temperatures in the U.K. unexpectedly plummeted.
"I've seen ice pancakes occasionally before," Sinclair told Live Science in an email."But these were particularly interesting" because of their perfect shape, he added. On rivers, the pancakes form when frozen foam on the water's surface gets trapped in a spiraling current known as an eddy. As other bits of frozen foam and ice hit these forming discs, the debris joins onto the nascent pancakes, which causes them to grow, according to the Met Office.
Ice pancakes can grow to between 8 and 79 inches across, and although they look like solid discs, they are often quite slushy and easily break apart when lifted up, according to the Met Office.—Vanishing ice is warping Earth's crustAlthough the icy discs dot the Great Lakes of North America and the oceans surrounding Antarctica, where temperatures often fall well below freezing, ice pancakes are much rarer in U.K. rivers.
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