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crisann | 14:41 Mon 17th Mar 2008 | Quizzes & Puzzles
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large detached piece of an iceberg or glacier.

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Calf?
The birth of a calf is calving. The term calving is also applied in geology to the breaking off of a mass of ice from its parent glacier, iceberg, ...
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I probably am wrong but Floe immediately sprang to mind
I believe the "calving" term continues to be used as the bergs get smaller becoming "bergie bits" when they drop below about 5m high of visible ice and later "growlers" when their height drops below 1m.
I believe an ice floe is a predominantly flat piece of ice which comes from floating pack ice, i.e. usually from frozen sea water. Bergs calve from freshwater ice i.e. glaciers. If brash ice and/or growlers are kept together by wind and/or current and the water around them refreezes then you can have a floe which is part fresh/ part salt water.

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