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pressure ice

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noun

  1. a general term for ice broken and deformed by stresses generated by wind, currents, or waves.


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By pressure ice can be moulded to any shape, while the same ice snaps sharply asunder if subjected to tension.

From The Glaciers of the Alps Being a narrative of excursions and ascents, etc. by Tyndall, John

Sections of pressure ice may drift away subsequently and become embedded in new ice.

From South: the story of Shackleton's 1914-1917 expedition by Shackleton, Ernest Henry, Sir

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