Of the many forwards my mom sends me, there are actually a few interesting ones that slip through, one of which was in my inbox this morning. It showcased a series of amazing photos of striped icebergs in Antarctica! I'd never actually heard of this phenomenon, but the effects are quite cool:
Blue stripes are often created when a crevice in the ice sheet fills up with meltwater and freezes so quickly that no bubbles form. When an iceberg falls into the sea, a layer of salty seawater can freeze to the underside. If this is rich in algae, it can form a green stripe. Brown, black and yellow lines are caused by sediment, picked up when the ice sheet grinds downhill towards the sea.
After doing a quick search I discovered an article from DailyMail that contained a few more amazing striped iceberg pictures. They also cited the man who photographed them: a Norwegian sailor named Oyvind Tangen who was traveling on a research vessel in the area.
The sailors thought that the icebergs looked like mint humbugs.
The article also has a photo of the "mint humbug" candy, which is striped as well and really does resemble the iceberg in a way! Of all the pictures in the article, my favorite is the one in this post. 
Ha ha, very cool.
I remember stumbling on something similar. Very cool.
wow, never seen anything like that before! I like the one with the blue strip running through it! Pretttttyyyy!
I totally thought it was a whale for a sec!
Nah, but that looks so cool!
It looks like a big humbug. Mmm.
That is nifty! I may have to show my kids this! Yes Melissa YOU are that special.
Interesting! To me it looks like a big plastic cover just sitting on top of the water
Wow, how interesting! Are they taken from a huge distance away? Because they look kinda small to me! Like they should be bigger…
Lol, I get about three forwards from my mom everyday too, hardly any of them are any interesting, lol
But that is amazing! That iceberg is beautiful! I never knew stuff like that could happen…
I wonder what it tastes like.
This reminds me of the LJ community “wtf_nature.” There’s some crazy stuff out there!
Hey, that looks awesome!
That’s really cool!
yum
The reputation of forwards has been redeemed! That is seriously cool.
When I saw that I thought mint humbugs! lol
Waaaah.. Those are so cool. I want to travel the world and see cool things. But i suppose the internets are the next best thing eh? ^^
Have you seen the solid frozen waves that are created in Antartica too? They’re so awesome looking. If your mom likes this kinda stuff, have you ever introduced her to StumbleUpon? My mom loves it just because of these kinds of discoveries
So pretty!
That’s a rather tasty-looking chunk of ice.
mmm, sea candy *drools*
Wow cool and beautiful (yammi)
All I can say is WOW…amazing.
Those are awesome! They do look like mint lollies!