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A growler get its name from the noise it sometimes makes as it bobs up
and down in the sea, not because it is scraping bottom.


That is incorrect....


A bergy bit is about the size of a house. Both the bergy bit and the
growler are usually calved from icebergs.


That is incorrect....


I would guess an Ice ridge is were to masses of ice meet and the
pressure forms a ridge.


That is incorrect...


You got me on the candle Ice.


"What is rotten ice".... candle ice sounds like glass wind chimes.

What is sea ice, - self explanitory
fast ice - coarse structure
shelf ice - self explanitory
ice islands - self explanitory
ice cake
pancake ice
Ice Floes - fractured pan ice
Ice fields - self explanitory
bending ice
tenting ice
rafting ice
pressure ice
Hummocked ice - the above are all tidal ice formations
weathered ice -self explanitory
pack ice - self explanitory
and last but not least rotten ice - see candle ice



 
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