Exotic beauty of lake ice Abraham, Canada

Apparently , Abraham Lake in Alberta ( Canada ) looked pretty as a picture painted with smooth mirror-like surface of the lake , but the lake is hidden under an unpredictable risk .

Images of white bubbles blue , look like little cotton balls or bubbles of sparkling water by methane ice is visible through the clear water create stunning beauty of this lake .

The slick ice forming on the lake dotted blue and white paintings very interesting . In 2011, French photographer Emmanuel Coupe had taken the fanciful picture of Abraham Lake and portable Traveler Photo contest by the National Geographic Magazine organizational reputation . The image of Abraham Lake Ice also won the gold award for the photographers during PX3 competition . PX3 is the most prestigious award in Europe for the photographic work .

Abraham is an artificial lake , the Saskatchewan river in western Alberta , Canada . Lake surface area of about 53.7 square km range , 32km long . Lake was formed in 1972 under the Canadian Rockies foothills .

If only the blue ice throughout the lake Abraham will not impress the powerful . This artificial lake which owns architecture bizarre ice below , we like the sparkling bubbles on the surface of the lake and patchy .

In the spring , when the snow began to fall , and the air bubbles out onto the lake . If the ice cracked , the air bubbles are released into the air . Abrahman methane in the lake formed from the decomposition of organic matter by bacteria in the water , this organic matter including plants , animals die , the waste water treatment system of the farms around around the lake also contribute to methane by microbial decomposition of organic matter formed .

In winter , when the lake freezes Abraham , a methane gas beneath the earth's surface and the ocean floor is still stuck at the bottom of the lake as a white solid called Methane Hydrate . When the water in the tank to heat up , get up the solids in the water combined with methane from the decomposition of bacteria forming icicles great as we see in the pictures .

Not only in Abraham Lake , most of the methane in water in the Arctic . Methane affect climate more than 20 times compared with the same amount of carbon dioxide over a period of 100 years . Fortunately, they are easily burned .

To prove this ice is a colorless gas , odorless methane , the ecologist at the University of Alaska Fairbanks has done an experiment , they pour warm water into the ice to form a small hole in it , they use the lighter bait blocks to ignite the gas .

In recent years , the ice can no longer hold the gas block is more , according to ecologists Shakhova , every year there are about eight million tons of gas escaping from East Siberia , Arctic Ocean , threatening to global warming .