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Caption: Finger rafting is the block zippered pattern that forms when thin ice sheets floating on water collide creating "fingers" that push over and under each other alternately. This photo was taken off the Antarctic coast.
Credit: W.F. Weeks
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Related news release: 'Finger rafting:' Ice sheets that mesh when they meet
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