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    Frost flowers are ice crystals commonly found growing on young sea ice and thin lake ice in cold, calm conditions. The ice crystals are similar to hoar...
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    Glaze or glaze ice, also called glazed frost or verglas, is a smooth, transparent and homogeneous ice coating occurring when freezing rain or drizzle hits...
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    Biscayarfonna in Svalbard. Glacier Iceberg Ice cap climate Ice core Ice shelf List of glaciers in Russia Sea ice Benn, Douglas; Evans, David (1998). Glaciers...
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    Drift ice, also called brash ice, is sea ice that is not attached to the shoreline or any other fixed object (shoals, grounded icebergs, etc.). Unlike...
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    or ice disruption. It is the sudden release and breaking away of a mass of ice from a glacier, iceberg, ice front, ice shelf, or crevasse. The ice that...
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    Blake D. F.; Wilson M. A.; Pohorille A. (1995). "High-density amorphous ice, the frost on insterstellar grains". Astrophysical Journal. 455: 389. Bibcode:1995ApJ...
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    glaciers and ice sheets. As snowflakes and hail, ice is a common form of precipitation, and it may also be deposited directly by water vapor as frost. The transition...
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    An ice volcano is a conical mound of ice formed over a terrestrial lake via the eruption of water and slush through an ice shelf. The process is wave-driven...
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    Freezing vapor can form frost crystals, frost feathers and two-dimensional ice plates on the cave walls and ceiling. Needle ice: Infiltrating water that...
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    Frost is a thin layer of ice on a solid surface, which forms from water vapor that deposits onto a freezing surface. Frost forms when the air contains...
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