Ice floe

An ice floe is a large pack of floating ice often defined as a flat piece at least 20 m across at its widest point, and up to more than 10 km across.[1] Drift ice is a floating field of sea ice composed of several ice floes. They may cause ice jams on freshwater rivers, and in the open ocean may damage the hulls of ships.

gollark: ... no.
gollark: Dragon kind of had that - you used a keyboard to type into a turtle and it'd send items over an introspection module to you.
gollark: (autocrafting coming as soon as I figure out how my previous crafting job solver worked and port it)
gollark: It is arguably pretty next-generation. It's designed to function more like AE2, with one server, multiple terminals and automation.
gollark: Hah, squid's artist thread is called "Previous-Generation Plethora Storage".

References
  1. Qin Zhang; Roger Skjetne (13 February 2018). Sea Ice Image Processing with MATLAB. CRC. p. 43. ISBN 978-1-351-06918-2.


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