Ice floes originating from the Sólheimajökull glacier on an Iceland. The Sólheimajökull is a glacier in southern Iceland. The glacier is an offshoot of the great Mýrdalsjökull.
An ice floe or ice shelf is a piece of floating ice created when previously contiguous ice surfaces around the poles or on rivers, seas and other waters warm up and drift apart. The huge icebergs and ice shelves (shell ice) that break off from the ice sheets on and around the mainland in the Arctic or Antarctic (Southern Ocean) are also sometimes referred to as 'ice floes'. The ice floes that occur on rivers are usually broken-off pieces of floating ice. These can sometimes pose a danger to bridges. This is because they can get stuck between two piers, putting great strain on such a structure.
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