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Here, waves tossed the ice around — grinding it into round plates called pancake ice or pushing thin sheets on top of one another to create an interlocking pattern, a phenomenon known as finger rafting.
Arctic Ice Feedback Loops Will Guide the Climate’s Future Shannon Hall 2020
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raft ice
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Finger_rafting "develops in an ice cover as a result of a compression regime established within the plane of the ice"
January 24, 2013