Racheal Devine                                                 about 150 words

INTD: Science Writing

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The Heart of the Antarctic

In The Heart of the Antarctic by E. H. Shackleton in the third appendix, I choose the scientific results of the western journey to analyze. In section three of appendix three is the results from the effect of the summer sun on different varieties of ice and snow. It talks about how when the snow falls in the summer at night it will either become a coating of ice or water. This water will collect into a hollowed hole and eventually from overflowing create a stream that, in this instance, flows to a cliff and roars off of a glacier. Also the noise that the ice falling off a glacier makes when it starts to melt and make icebergs during the summer.  This made me think about the natural sounds that could possibly be in Antarctica since there’s not much noise there, relating back to the past reading about sound pollution. This also made me think about in Bromirski’s research on Ross Ice Shelf Vibrations when he talked about how the seasons affect the vibrations, relating to the science and arts.