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Naturally occurring ice forms and features.
- Ice cap – Ice mass that covers less than 50,000 km² of land area
- Ice sheet – Large mass of glacial ice
Ices[edit]
- Amorphous ice – States of matter for water as a solid
- Firn – Partially compacted névé
- Frost – Coating or deposit of ice
- Ice crystals – Water ice in symmetrical shapes
- Névé – Young, granular type of snow
- Rime ice – Granular whitish deposit of ice formed by freezing fog
- Slush – Mixture of snow and liquid water
General ice phenomena[edit]
- Ice cave – Natural cave that contains significant amounts of year-round ice
- Ice jacking – Structural damage caused by freezing water
- Ice stalactite
- Icicle – Spike of ice formed by water dripping and freezing
Ice in water[edit]
Category:Water ice, Category:Sea ice
- Anchor ice – Submerged ice anchored to a river bottom or seafloor
- Ball ice – a rare phenomenon in which small pieces of sea ice in open water grow into spheroid pieces of ice
- Brinicle – Sea ice formation
- Congelation ice – Ice that forms on the bottom of an established ice cover
- Drift ice – Sea ice that is not attached to land
- Fast ice – Sea ice that is connected to the coastline, to the sea floor along shoals or to grounded icebergs
- Finger rafting – Compression overlapping of floating ice cover in alternating overthrusts and underthrusts
- Frazil ice – Collections of ice crystals in open water
- Frost flower (sea ice) – Ice crystal found growing on young sea ice
- Grease ice – Stage in the formation of sea ice
- Ice jam – Accumulation of ice in a river
- Ice circle – Rotating slab of ice on slow-moving water
- Ice massif
- Ice mélange – Mixture of sea ice types, icebergs, and snow without a clearly defined floe
- Ice shelf – Large floating platform of ice caused by glacier flowing onto ocean surface
- Ice shove – Ice pushed onshore due to water movements or wind
- Ice spike – Upward projection of ice from surface of frozen water body
- Ice volcano – Wave-driven mound of ice formed on terrestrial lakes
- Iceberg – Large piece of freshwater ice broken off a glacier or ice shelf and floating in open water
- Lead (sea ice) – Fracture that opens up in an expanse of sea ice
- Polynya – Area of unfrozen sea within an ice pack
- Pressure ridge (ice) – Linear accumulation of ice blocks resulting from the convergence between floes
- Bellycatter (shoreline ridge)
- Stamukha – Static accumulation of sea ice rubble (landfast ridge)
- Sea ice – Outcome of seawater as it freezes
- Shelf ice – Ice formed on a lake and washed up on the shore
- Strudel (ice) – Vertical hole in sea ice
Ice ashore[edit]
- Aufeis – Sheet-like mass of layered ice
- Black ice – Thin coating of glazed ice on a surface
- Frost flower – Thin layer of ice extruded from a plant
- Frost heaving – Upwards swelling of soil during freezing
- Glacier – Persistent body of ice that is moving under its own weight
- Glaze (ice) – Coating of ice on objects
- Hair ice – Hairlike ice that forms on dead wood
- Ice dam (roof) – ice build-up on the eaves of sloped roofs of heated buildings
- Ice lens – Ice within soil or rock
- Ice storm – Weather event characterized by freezing rain
- Ice field – Large area of interconnected glaciers
- Needle ice – Ice column formed when liquid groundwater rises into freezing air
- Penitente (snow formation) – Field of regularly spaced ice formations formed by sublimation at high altitudes
- Snow patch – Snow accumulation which stays longer than other snow cover
Ice aloft[edit]
- Clear ice – smooth, compact, and transparent deposit of amorphous ice formed by freezing fog
- Diamond dust – Ground-level cloud of ice crystals
- Ice dune – Dune made of ice
- Ice fog – Fog consisting of fine ice crystals suspended in the air
- Ice nucleus
- Niveo-aeolian deposition – Deposition of sediments onto snow or ice
- Snow – Precipitation in the form of ice crystal flakes