Bergfield

noun

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Definitions

Noun
  1. 1
    An expanse of ice covered with icebergs.

    "Bergfields, collections of grounded deep-draft floebergs (>25 m keel depths) and ice-island fragments, have been forming in the northeast Chukchi Sea since 1966 and probably earlier."

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"Bergfields, collections of grounded deep-draft floebergs (>25 m keel depths) and ice-island fragments, have been forming in the northeast Chukchi Sea since 1966 and probably earlier."

Etymology

From berg + field.

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