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Wednesday, January 16, 2019

Lake Elkhorn circles mystery solved

  It took a little internet research to finally solve the frozen circle mystery.  Here is what I found.

"Methane emissions from decaying plants can create a rising mass of warm water that begins swirling in a circular pattern.   Once the water mass reaches the underside of the ice on the surface of the lake, the warm water melts the ice in a ring shape," 

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