Picture it this way: The water slowly creeps into the bed, the same way it has done time and time again for generations. It flows in and out the same way, over and over again.

Now, often, the temp drops. When it does, the top layer of this water becomes frozen. It freezes in large sheets. But often it continues to rise a little after the top freezes. This would have the effect of floating these ice sheets in some direction, perhaps in contour with the land, even uphill.

Now imagine how the water surrounds the rock, even freezes around it. The ice is very bouyant, especially in large sheets. Now, instead of having a single rock held in place by gravity, you have a giant floating ice sheet with the lake bed slowly filling.

The rock doesn’t have to move much, just a little each time. I suppose you could probably test this in a bucket by putting a rock in, letting the top freeze over, then adding more water. Just what ratio of ice to density of rock would you need to lift it?

In a non related quest that included our four seasons, experiments showed me that black ice is a product of dew not atmosphere. Although they are both slippery most of us have experienced the difference.

Summer has dew and none due mornings.
Winter has black ice or frost mornings.

Dew is Earths natural way of supplying water to life in deserts or you could say.
Dew is produced by the Earth and species evolve because of this phenomenon.

Could it be as simple as the likes of black ice to be the reason of Avalanche?

An accumulation of mature frost or snow would be binding and would not easily slide on it’s self so I propose that for whatever reason a layer of frozen dew or black ice is laid down and it’s this layer that the avalanche people are finding in their snow blocks.

My goodness could it be this frozen dew that moves glaciers or the reason for mud or rock slides (the likes of Franks Slide)!

And yes by golly with black ice and a bit of wind those huge boulders easily meander about the desert of Death Valley.

A little common sense will have most considering that if said boulder were placed on Black Ice wind could move it. But — these meandering boulders are not placed on ice and are stationary. So how can ice form between the boulder (glacier) and ground!
(easy)

ALL MATTER PRODUCES OXYGEN!
EXAMPLE:
You could say, for instance, how in heck could a piece of wood, no longer a live tree, produce oxygen?

The liquid ingredient of water has vacated your two by four (rock). The cells of this dead piece of wood still contain an active water cell nucleus with its orbiting nuclei. This cell nucleus contains the complete make-up of the tree and constantly reproduces itself as nuclei (aura). The aura of this piece of two by four, with cold temperature, produces water as dew.

And yes by golly with black ice and a bit of wind those huge boulders easily meander about the desert of Death Valley.
cbc.ca bruce voigt

Also notice the mound of clay ahead of the rocks, not pressed underneath, but out in front. These rocks moved swiftly and stopped swiftly!

My bad

A similar thing happens to Donald Judd’s aluminium boxes in a Marfa, TX museum that also gets lots of sun and is situated such that the early morning and late afternoon sunlight streams in from the large windows and strikes the boxes. See:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chinati_Foundation