Finger rafting off Banks Island

A good example of "finger rafting", where wind or wave action cracks a large, thin ice floe and forces one of the fragments to partially overlap (or "raft" ) another, with the two floes fracturing along geometric repeating patterns.

Credits
NASA/John Sonntag
Subject
Other
Mission
OIB

 

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