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River Bells

February: I saw these lovely ice formations as we walked along the bank of Svartá ("Black River") in Skagafjörður, NE .
I've had several failed attempts to find out what they are called, so I named them myself.

The edge of an ice crust, probably with vegetation embedded in it, is hanging in the water. Successive freezing nights and changing depth has coated them repeatedly, leaving these lovely natural sculptures.

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A close-up photo of a river bank, with flowing water on the right and at the bottom, and an ice crust on the top and left. There is a visible gap below the ice sheet and above the water surface. Along the edge of the ice, strange icicle shapes have formed. At the top, they are quite slender and holes can be seen between them. Further down the structures are more bulbous, about the size of a man's fist, almost the shape of a spring onion or scallion, and are opaque ice. Immediately above the flowing water, the icicles become more transparent, apparently wet, and are split into smaller, drop-like shapes clustered together. The overall impression is of a hand bell shape, and this is what I chose to call them.
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