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Term: Crack
Definition: Sea ice terminology that describes any fracture of fast ice, consolidated ice or a single floe which may have been followed by separation ranging from a few centimetres to 1 metre.
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Term: Crack
Definition: A separation formed in an ice cover of floe that does not divide it into two or more pieces.
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Term: Crack
Definition: Any fracture or rift in floating ice not sufficiently wide to be described as a lead.
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Term: Crack
Definition: Any fracture of fast ice, consolidated ice or a single floe with a width ranging from a few centimeters to 50 m and a length from several tens or hundreds of meters to several hundreds of kilometers.
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Term: Crack
Definition: Any fracture that has not parted.
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Term: Crack
Definition: A fracture in an ice floe that has not parted substantially. More specifically, it is any fracture of fast ice, consolidated ice, or a single floe that may have been followed by separation ranging from a few centimeters to 1 m.
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Term: Crack
Definition: Any fracture or rift in floating ice not sufficiently wide to be described as a lead.
Created 2022.03.08
Last Modified 2023.03.27
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