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The Many Forms of Ice and Lava

The insane shapes of fire and ice.

By Neill Lynskey

Published 2 months ago

Liquid fire and solid water are fascinating enough as they are, but they can take shapes you probably haven’t seen before.


Lava is beautiful and terrifying, and every form of it is more dangerous than the last. Pillow lava emerges out of the ocean in giant round ribbons, carbonatite lava forms structures that look dark and demonic. Some lava even dries as razor-sharp strands that look like hair. Ice may be even weirder in what it can twist into. There are beautiful fields of ice blooms, forest floors scattered with hair ice, and miles of mountains covered in sharp frozen pillars.


Check out the two most extreme forms of the elements showing off how insane they can look. 

  • 1

    Pillow Lava

    Lava that emerges out of underwater volcano hotspots.

    Pillow Lava

  • 2

    Solidified Pillow Lava

    Solidified Pillow Lava

  • 3

    Field of Solidified Pillow Lava

    Field of Solidified Pillow Lava

  • 4

    Blocky Lava

    Blocky flows are common if the silica content of lavas is higher

    Blocky Lava

  • 5

    Emulsified Blocky Lava

    Emulsified Blocky Lava

  • 6

    Solidified Blocky Lava

    Solidified Blocky Lava

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    Pahoehoe Lava

    A smooth and continuous lava crust. Pahoehoe forms when the effusion rate is low and consequently the velocity of lava flow is slow

    Pahoehoe Lava

  • 8

    Pahoehoe Lava solidifying in ribbons

    Pahoehoe Lava solidifying in ribbons

  • 9

    Pahoehoe Lava flowing

    Pahoehoe Lava flowing

  • 10

    Pele’s Hair

    Thin glass fibers that form when gas bubbles within lava burst at the lava's surface.

    Pele’s Hair

  • 11

    Blue lava

    Magma can turn blue as a result of burning sulfur gases in the atmosphere.

    Blue lava

  • 12

    Carbonatite lava

    Found in Tanzania’s “Mountain of God”

    Carbonatite lava

  • 13

    Penitentes

    Ice that forms in high-altitude when the sun rays turn snow directly into water vapor without melting it first.

    Penitentes

  • 14

    Penitentes in the Andes Mountain Range

    Penitentes in the Andes Mountain Range

  • 15

    A Field of Penitentes

    Tourist in a field of Penitentes in the Andes.

    A Field of Penitentes

  • 16

    Frost flowers

    Blooms of ice that form on dead plant-life.

    Frost flowers

  • 17

    Frost flowers on a forest floor.

    Frost flowers on a forest floor.

  • 18

    A field of frost flowers on Lake Akan, Japan.

    A field of frost flowers on Lake Akan, Japan.

  • 19

    Needle Ice

    Ice that appears once moisture on soil reaches freezing temperatures.

    Needle Ice

  • 20

    Turquoise Ice

    Fresh water lake ice that breaks through to the surface.

    Turquoise Ice

  • 21

    Turquoise ice at sunset.

    Turquoise ice at sunset.

  • 22

    Tourist with turquoise ice.

    Tourist with turquoise ice.

  • 23

    Snow-capped turquoise ice.

    Snow-capped turquoise ice.

  • 24

    Hair ice

    Also known as wool ice. It forms on dead wood.

    Hair ice

  • 25

    Hair ice formed on a branch.

    Hair ice formed on a branch.

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    Hair ice on a forest floor.

    Hair ice on a forest floor.

  • 27

    Frozen bubbles

    Bubbles under the surface of Canada’s Abraham Lake

    Frozen bubbles

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