Tide crack

Alternative definitions (5), class: vernacular (0)
Term: Tide crack
Definition: The fissure at the line of junction between an immovable icefoot or ice wall and fast ice, the latter being subject to the rise and fall of the tide.  NSIDCCryosphere 

A crack between fast ice subject to sea level tidal rise and fall and the fast ice foot or ice wall, or shore.  Bushuyev 

Crack at the line of junction between an immovable ice foot or ice wall and fast ice, the latter subject to rise and fall of the tide.  WMOSeaIce 

A crack between the moving sea ice and the unmoving ice foot. It may widen to form a shore lead.  AMSglossary 

The fissure at the line of junction between an immovable icefoot or ice wall and fast ice, the latter being subject to the rise and fall of the tide.  SPRI 

 GCW 
Created 2017.06.06
Last Modified 2022.03.08
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