(oceanography) Any area of sea ice, except fast ice, composed of a heterogeneous mixture of ice of varying ages and sizes, and formed by the packing together of pieces of floating ice. Also known as ice canopy; ice pack; pack.
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An expanse of large pieces of floating ice driven together into a nearly continuous mass, as occurs in polar seas.
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- ice boundary (hydrology)
- shore polyn'ya (oceanography)
- pack ice
- cryosphere
- Arctic Ocean
- ice pole (geography)
- shore lead (oceanography)
- Beaufort Sea
- iceberg (oceanography)
- ice blink (meteorology)
- belt
- ice pack
- Ross Sea (body of water, Antarctica)
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