Author(s): O. Smith
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Abstract: Ice that is grounded on tidelands and repealedly covered by tidewater before floating free can be far more massive and dangerous to shipplng than ambient level ice and offshore ridges. These ice blocks, or "stamukhas, " carry heavy sediment loads and therefore are more massive than sea ice ridges of the same volume. Observations of stamukha formation in Cook Inlet, Alaska, indicate formation of these ice features can entrain and transport substantial mass of potentially contaminated tidelands sediment.
Year: 2000