bergfield

noun

bergfield

noun

Etymology From berg + field.

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.1983, John Thomas Andrews, Glacial Marine Sediments and Sedimentation: An Annotated Bibliography:

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