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In many areas, stamukhi stabilize sea ice for tens of kilometers from shore.
Marine Arctic 2009
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In the present climate, ice ridges ground to form stamukhi in depths of up to 30 m, as the pack ice is repeatedly crushed against the fast ice by storm winds.
Marine Arctic 2009
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Land-fast ice (or fast ice) is immobilized for up to 10 months each year by coastal geometry or by grounded ice ridges (stamukhi).
Marine Arctic 2009
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These areas are maintained as suitable habitat by a combination of continuous under-ice freshwater flow and the formation of the nearshore ice barrier in the stamukhi zone (area of grounded, nearshore ice pressure ridges).
Effects of climate change on general hydro-ecology in the Arctic 2009
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