1.9 Stages of Melting
- Puddle
- An accumulation of water on ice, mainly due to melting snow, but in the more advanced stages also to the melting of ice.
- Thaw Holes
- Vertical holes in ice formed when surface puddles melt through to the underlying water.
Photo 1.10: Vast pan of first-year ice, with extensive puddling and thaw holes
- Dried Ice
- Ice surface from which water has disappeared after the formation of cracks and thaw holes. During the period of drying the surface whitens.
- Rotten Ice
- Ice which has become honeycombed and is in an advanced state of disintegration.
- Flooded Ice
- Ice which has been flooded and is heavily loaded by water or water and wet snow.
- Frozen Puddle
- A puddle which has frozen over.