Icebergs and Sea Ice

As small icebergs called bergy bits are jostled by the tide near beaches, they create juddermarks on the soft sediment. These marks, resembling the trace of a tracked vehicle, are shown with the culprits, now stranded at high-water mark, on this beach near Austre Lovenbreen in north-west Spitsbergen.

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