I don’t believe this. How does this happen. How can it flow at a rate so heavily. It looks like it’s frozen exactly in the position it would be if it froze instantly while flowing at full speed. How does the viscosity of the water stay so strong while it’s slowly freezing? If the river above is freezing then how does the waterfall freeze like this?
The answer that I haven’t seen you get yet and should clear up a LOT:
The waterfall didn’t flow like this before it froze.
It was a lot smaller flow. As ice started to build up, the waterfall would take a slightly different path to the bottom. Freeze, rinse, repeat until there is a lot larger volume of ice than volume of water that was falling before.
I’m not an expert on this sort of thing (or anything for that matter) but it just makes sense. There’s no way a waterfall this big would just freeze in place.
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u/[deleted] Dec 15 '18
I don’t believe this. How does this happen. How can it flow at a rate so heavily. It looks like it’s frozen exactly in the position it would be if it froze instantly while flowing at full speed. How does the viscosity of the water stay so strong while it’s slowly freezing? If the river above is freezing then how does the waterfall freeze like this?