Floe

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Term: Floe
Definition: A piece of floating ice other than fast ice or glacier ice. Floes are subdivided by size as follows: ice cakes are less than 20 m across; small floes 20-100 m; medium floes 100-500 m; big floes 500 m-2 km; vast floes 2-10 km; giant floes over 10 km.
Created 2022.03.08
Last Modified 2023.03.27
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