needle ice

On sloped surfaces, needle ice may be a factor contributing to soil creep.

Plants are subject to solifluction, where needle ice is produced every night in wetter soils.

Needle ice - Infiltrating water that freezes within the bedrock can sometimes be forced into the cave passage.

Ivainson Jaric roused to the needling ice of raindrops, and darkness like winter midnight.

Needle ice is essentially frost heaving that occurs at the beginning of the freezing season, before the freezing front has penetrated very far into the soil and there is no soil overburden to lift as a frost heave.

Types of frost flowers include needle ice, frost pillars or frost columns, extruded from pores in the soil, and ice ribbons, rabbit frost or rabbit ice, extruded from linear fissures in plant stems.