Types of Aquatic Environment 



minute icicles are forming and their tips are being broken 

 off by the oscillations of the current. These broken 

 tips constitute 

 the rubble. 

 They are some- 

 times remark- 

 ably uniform in 

 size— those form- 

 ing when this 

 picture was 

 taken were 

 about the size 

 of pea s — a n d 

 though small 

 they are the 

 tools with which 

 the current does 

 its winter clean- 

 ing. In the 

 ponds formed by 

 damming rapid 

 streams this rub- 

 ble accumulates 

 under the solid 

 ice. 



"Anchor ice" 

 forms in the 

 beds of rapid 

 streams, and 

 adds another 

 peril to their in- 

 habitants. The 

 water, cooled ^ 



i-,„v„. +V,Q, -P-,-^^ Fig. 23. The ice veil on Triphammer Falls, Cornell 



ueiOW^cne ireez- University Campus. The fall is at the left, the 



ing point bv con- Laboratory of Hydraulic Engineering at the right 



for.+ -nr-;-H-, +1^^^-,V in the picture, the only open water seen is in the 



LciLL v\ ILU trie air, foaming pool at the foot of the faU. 



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