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An ice floe (/ f l oʊ /) is a large pack of floating ice often defined as a flat piece at least 20 m across at its widest point, and up to more than 10 km across. [1] Drift ice is a floating field of sea ice composed of several ice floes. They may cause ice jams on freshwater rivers, and in the open ocean may damage the hulls of ships.
Young ice is a transition stage between nilas and first-year ice and ranges in thickness from 10 cm (3.9 in) to 30 cm (12 in), Young ice can be further subdivided into grey ice – 10 cm (3.9 in) to 15 cm (5.9 in) in thickness and grey-white ice – 15 cm (5.9 in) to 30 cm (12 in) in thickness. Young ice is not as flexible as nilas, but tends ...
A pressure ridge, when consisting of ice in an oceanic or coastal environment, is a linear pile-up of sea ice fragments formed in pack ice by accumulation in the convergence between floes. Such a pressure ridge develops in an ice cover as a result of a stress regime established within the plane of the ice.
First responders received the first call of people stranded on an ice floe just before 5 p.m., and by 7:37 p.m. all people on the floe had been rescued, the sheriff's office said. Multiple ...
The combination of warming temperatures and strong winds can make ice floes most likely to occur in late winter and early spring, so make sure you pack some common sense if you’re planning on ...
More than two dozen people were rescued from a large ice floe that strong winds broke free from the shoreline of Upper Red Lake in northwestern Minnesota, officials said. Sheriff Jason Riggs told ...
Similarly, ships can get stuck between drift ice floes. The two major ice packs are the Arctic ice pack and the Antarctic ice pack. The most important areas of pack ice are the polar ice packs formed from seawater in the Earth's polar regions: the Arctic ice pack of the Arctic Ocean and the Antarctic ice pack of the Southern Ocean. Polar packs ...
An ice floe that broke off the mainland and floated into the middle of Lake Erie left 18 people stranded Sunday.