The truth about the weather phenomenon inside the ice picture looks like a cake

Recently, netizens are sharing a very positive, super-imagined picture, about disk-shaped ice sheets, overlapping like pancakes (pancake). That's the picture below. Do you think it is a photoshop or a real image?

The answer is 99% true (the remaining 1% is because the image may have been colored). This photo looks virtual, but depicts a real phenomenon, named: pancake ice, or pancake ice.

The photo has been shared by netizens recently.

This is a relatively rare phenomenon in temperate regional countries , but is common in cold waters like Antarctica and Baltic Sea.

The reason is that the waves push soft pieces of ice into each other, causing the edge to break, forming a circle. And also the wave that pushes on overlapping, like pancake-like discs.

The pancake band at Amundsen beach (West Antarctica).

According to Jamie Urquhart, an English biologist, this phenomenon can happen anywhere , including large lakes like the Great Lakes of America.

However, these ice sheets are normally just like giant leaves - thin and fragile. Sometimes, they are hard enough for us to touch and lift like lifting a pancake with ice. That's exactly what happened in the first photo you saw.

These ice sheets are normally just like giant leaves - thin and fragile.

These ice sheets will then melt together, creating a flat ice sheet . Then when the ice is thick enough, the water is strong enough, it will cause the ice to bend, rise up and form a reef like the image below.

These ice sheets will then melt together, creating a flat ice sheet.