bergfield

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English[edit]

Etymology[edit]

berg +‎ field

Noun[edit]

bergfield (plural bergfields)

  1. An expanse of ice covered with icebergs.
    • 1983, John Thomas Andrews, Glacial Marine Sediments and Sedimentation: An Annotated Bibliography:
      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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