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Dead ice

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shell icenoun(glaciology, oceanography) A form of ice which is no longer supported by the water beneath it, and instead has a cavity underneath.
drift icenounOne or more floating slabs of ice which have become detached from larger sheets or shoreline glaciers and which are moved by wind or sea currents.
subglacial lakenounAny lake that is permanently covered by ice.
ice floenounAny type of sea ice not attached to land, drift ice.
stream icenounPieces of drift ice swept down in a current.
glacial driftnoun(geology) An accumulation of glacial till that has been transported by moving ice, land ice, or icebergs.
trash icenoun(uncommon) Crumbled ice mixed with water.
young icenounSea ice, formed during the previous winter, that is slightly older than nilas.
field icenounice formed in the polar seas in large surfaces, distinguished from icebergs
glaciernoun(geology) A large body of ice which flows under its own mass, usually downhill.
icebergnounA huge mass of ocean-floating ice which has broken off a glacier or ice shelf [from 19th c.]
slob icenounSlushy sea ice.
sea icenounFrozen seawater.
ground icenounSynonym of anchor ice.
blue icenounIce that is blue in colour, formed by compressed snow on a glacier having its air bubbles squeezed out.
glaciariumnoun(dated, formal) An ice rink.
sludgenounA residual semi-solid material left from industrial, water treatment, or wastewater treatment processes.
rock glaciernounAn unstable mass of scree
naledA particular organophosphate insecticide.
pack icenounA large consolidated mass of floating sea ice.

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