Ice foot (fixed ice)

The Eisfuß in polar regions an ice belt on the coast which is not of the tides is moved, since its base at or below the low water mark is He remains as often several meters high Eisstufe on the coast back when the rest of Küstenfesteis is driven off. The ice foot is formed by the rise and fall of the water level due to the tides, stranded sea ice and the freezing of spray . The upper edge of the ice foot marks the level of the highest water level reached. Where the coast consists of steep cliffs, the ice foot is relatively narrow, but on flat coast it can be very wide. In Greenland it is up to 100 m wide in the Kane Basin .

For the dogsled the Inuit and early Arctic expeditions along Eisfuß formed a comfortable walking the coast.

Individual evidence

↑ WMO Sea-Ice Nomenclature ( Memento from December 3, 2013 in the Internet Archive ).
↑ Hans-Peter Kosack : The polar research . A data book about the natural, cultural and economic conditions and the exploration history of the polar regions. Reprint of the 1st edition from 1967. Springer-Verlag, 2013, ISBN 978-3-663-00292-5 , pp. 135 , doi : 10.1007 / 978-3-663-02205-3 ( limited preview in Google Book search).
↑ ^a ^b Definition of ice foot . Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, accessed March 6, 2020.
↑ Den grønlandske Lods - Sejladsanvisninger Vestgrønland . Geodatastyrelsen, 2020, ISBN 978-87-92107-91-6 , p. 224 f . (Danish, gst.dk [PDF]).
^ W. M Davis , G. Braun : Grundzüge der Physiogeographie, revised on the basis of William Morris Davis' "Physical Geography" . Teubner, Leipzig 1911, p. 304 .

[WMO-1] WMO Sea-Ice Nomenclature ( Memento from December 3, 2013 in the Internet Archive ).

[2] Hans-Peter Kosack : The polar research . A data book about the natural, cultural and economic conditions and the exploration history of the polar regions. Reprint of the 1st edition from 1967. Springer-Verlag, 2013, ISBN 978-3-663-00292-5 , pp. 135 , doi : 10.1007 / 978-3-663-02205-3 ( limited preview in Google Book search).

[MW-3] Definition of ice foot . Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, accessed March 6, 2020.

[4] Den grønlandske Lods - Sejladsanvisninger Vestgrønland . Geodatastyrelsen, 2020, ISBN 978-87-92107-91-6 , p. 224 f . (Danish, gst.dk [PDF]).

[5] W. M Davis , G. Braun : Grundzüge der Physiogeographie, revised on the basis of William Morris Davis' "Physical Geography" . Teubner, Leipzig 1911, p. 304 .