Because water has a lower density than rock areas of floating ice show weaker gravitational fields than areas with rock underneath.
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Ships dock at the pier and unload their cargoes on the floating ice, which is connected to land by a movable bridge.
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The plane that picked him up landed on a makeshift runway he had marked out on the floating ice using plastic bags.
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A dangerous game called " copying " involves jumping from chunk to chunk when wind blows the floating ice into the harbor.
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U . S . Navy engineers constructed the first floating ice pier at McMurdo Station, Antarctica s southernmost sea port, in 1973.
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More than 350 fishermen have been rescued from floating ice floes in Ukraine since the beginning of the year, according to official data.
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A Rhode Island-size piece of the floating ice fringe along a fast-warming region of Antarctica has disintegrated with extraordinary rapidity, scientists said Tuesday.
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But new finds and satellite photographs show that the wind pushes floating ice west, toward Norwegian waters, " agency researcher Per Strand said.
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Together with the water currents, they break up the floating ice sheets and mix various water layers both laterally and along the depth.
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She remained inactive there and at League Island, where in December 1871 she was holed and sunk at her dock by floating ice.
