| Summary: | floe _Calf_ In the Arctic regions, a mass of floe ice breaking from under a floe, which when disengaged rises with violence to the surface of the water; it differs from a tongue, which is the same body kept fixed beneath the main floe. The iceberg is forced up the repeated freezing of thawed snow running down over the slopes, until at length the wave from beneath and weight above causes it to break off and fall into the sea, or, as termed in Croonsons, to calve. Thus, berg, is fresh-water ice, the work of years. The floe in salt water frozen suddenly each winter, and disolving in the summer. PRINTED ITEM W. J. KIRWIN AUG 1971 JH AUG 1971 Not used Not used Withdrawn [see 'calf'] blurred type
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