pancake ice

The modern term for this phenomenon is pancake ice.

Pancake ice may be formed in two ways.

In three days the grease ice had thickened into pancake ice.

And the larger flat segments, like vast lily pads, are "pancake ice."

Pancake ice is a formation of ice generally created in areas with less calm conditions.

By now the convoy was sailing through pancake ice, which along with the naval escort ensured there were no U-boat attacks.

Waves and wind then act to compress these ice particles into larger plates, of several meters in diameter, called pancake ice.

"The sprinkles of white around the bergs are mostly pancake ice mixed in with growlers .

However it was vulnerable to any jagged piece of pancake ice, or the fangs of that voracious underwater steel jaw.

Level ice, ice sludge, pancake ice or rafter ice form in the more open regions.

Pancake ice features elevated rims formed by piling the frazil ice/slush/etc.

Other terms, such as grease ice and pancake ice, are used for ice crystal accumulations under the action of wind and waves.

These rims are the first indication of the onset of the formation of the pancake ice from less consolidated forms of ice.

'Back in February 1993, Greenland's winter ice receded due to global warming, and the tongue of ice failed to form, dissolving into pancake ice.'

Brash ice now, it appeared, or the broken pancake ice of a sea surface that had been about to freeze over in the night; difficult to spot in all the flying foam.

In the Arctic, a key area where pancake ice forms the dominant ice type over an entire region is the so-called Odden ice tongue in the Greenland Sea.

In time, the pancake ice plates may themselves be rafted over one another or frozen together into a more solid ice cover, known as consolidated ice pancake ice.

This amorphous frazil ice is easily broken by swell into small floes that rub against each other and continue to grow, developing characteristic upturned edges of pancake ice in a matrix of loose crystals (Eicken et al.

Then he looked at the ice, it was not only brash and pancake ice, but there were big chunks, bergie bits, from rotten and weathered icebergs, which the wind had driven into the bay, like a sheep dog with its flock.

Most of the already formed ice continued floating south, driven by the wind, so a cold open water surface was exposed on which new ice formed as frazil ice and pancake ice in the rough seas, producing a giant tongue shape.

We fitted crampons, stole bread from the kitchen and filled a manfood box with supplies, struggled into red inflation suits, Fossil Bluff and the Ski Hi Nunataks winched two Humber inflatables into the bay and nudged our way through the pancake ice.