Ice and Stone's cool grayish / turquoise colors and pock marked surface are reminiscent of a moonscape
while Ice Holes emits a feeling of coldness and melting ice in its blueness, and Ice Sand is much like a burning dessert.
Not exact matches
For instance,
While swimming beneath an
ice cap in below freezing waters (yes, where
holes in
ice caps are cut out in order to enter and exit), Hof claimed to have lost his sight.
While we might examine the
hole in the
ice in hindsight, and find some particular fracture that contributed to the collapse, this is much like looking for the particular pebble of sand that triggers an avalanche, or the specific vibration that triggers an earthquake.
During one dive ascent, Ray recalled, parts of his regulator froze, leaving him to compete with a curious seal for access to a shared breathing
hole in the
ice,
while his colleagues ran to get their cameras.
While the ozone
hole is a stratospheric phenomenon, it can also stir winds in the lower levels of the atmosphere, which in turn affect Antarctic sea
ice.
But there's no argument that the more unbelievable sequences are original and entertaining as hell: who can resist the sight of Davis tossing her daughter from a
hole in her house into the nearby treehouse or chasing after a car...
while ice skating?
While glaciers and
ice sheets may physically plug large stores of buried methane hydrates or pull carbon dioxide out of the atmosphere through millions of small
holes, their impacts reach much further than their physical footprint.
Tree rings, coral skeletons, and glacial
ice cores (Figure 3) are proxies for annual temperature records,
while boreholes (
holes drilled deep into Earth's crust) can show temperature shifts over longer periods of time.
Meier said that
while it is possible that those are seal breathing
holes, the more relevant question is that why is the
ice so thin that the seals managed to break through.
Cut a
hole in the
ice and send down a diver with a waterproof video camera, all the
while tethering him via waterproof steel cable to a high speed tow truck winch with the tether being equipped with two super-duper SHAM - WOW!
At least I can protect my table top
while I sit back and sip my
ice cold beverage, thinking about how I still need to fix those
holes.