Why does a lake of ice cracking sound like laser beams shooting “Pew Pews”??
In: Earth Science
Well the reason the ice cracks is to relieve the pressure under the ice. The laser sounds come from the long cracks in the ice causing a certain vibration to continue carrying on through the un-cracked ice around it. If the ice doesn’t do these small cracks throughout the day, the pressure builds up and eventually causes an ice heave which is a massive crack that can cause like 7 foot mountains of ice across the lake
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