NOAA Ocean Explorer: Bottom of ice floe without melt-water layers

bottom of ice floe without melt-water layers

Bottom of an Arctic sea ice floe without melt-water layers. Note the undulating structure of ridges and depressions on scales of about 20cm typical for the period of summer melt. (Photo courtesy of Rolf Gradinger.)

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