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It may be freezing but the sap is rising!
Friday 29 March, 2013
News Brief

Sapicle shows that spring is just around the corner.

Full Story:

As a geologist ice has always fascinated – indeed of all the rocks it is the most abundant mineral on the earth’s crust.

Driving home across Cannock Chase (Staffordshire 28/3/13) during the recent cold snap I couldn’t help but notice a large icicle hanging from a tree branch, what wasn’t immediately apparent was where the water for the formation had come from.

As ever curiosity got the better, so on the way back to work the following morning I stopped to take some images, and a light bulb moment! The water had not come from the atmosphere but from the tree itself!

Warm sun on the topmost branches was causing sap to rise and weep from a branch broken by the snow, however the bitingly cold easterly wind caused the sap to freeze and form the stunning two metre long sapicle.

Other images taken from the office gardens at Specialist Aggregates show glass rods and marbles lit-up by winter sunshine and refracting colours and form not seen during the summer months when planting becomes more dominant.

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It may be freezing but the sap is rising !
It may be freezing but the sap is rising !
It may be freezing but the sap is rising !
It may be freezing but the sap is rising !
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