Ice shove
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An ice shove is a surge of ice from an ocean or large lake onto the shore. Ice shoves are caused by ocean currents, strong winds, or temperature differences pushing ice onto the shore, creating piles
Ice shove on the shore of Utah Lake, December 2020
An ice shove on Lake Winnebago in the state of Wisconsin in March 2009
People standing on broken ice from an ice shove that breached the shore in Montreal, Quebec in 1884
Ice shove on the shore of Lake Winnebago, Oshkosh, WI USA in March 2025.
Drift ice
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Drift ice, also called brash ice, is sea ice that is not attached to the shoreline or any other fixed object. Unlike fast ice, which is "fastened" to a fixed object, drift ice is carried along by wind
Ice shove
…ice shove events occur due to deformation of land-fast ice, ice that is anchored to the coast. Land-fast ice grows either locally or by merging with drift ice. In the Arctic, the Transpolar Drift Stream and the Beaufort Gyre are mostly responsible for sea ice transport. In the Beaufort Gyre, surface ice…
Drift ice, Greenland
The icebreaker Kontio, which in this picture became stuck in drift ice while towing a cargo ship in pack ice in the northern Baltic Sea
Ice floes / pack ice
Drift ice in the Sea of Okhotsk