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Icequake   Listen
noun
Icequake  n.  The crash or concussion attending the breaking up of masses of ice, often due to contraction from extreme cold.





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"Icequake" Quotes from Famous Books



... the east. Propelled by the immense forces of the hinterland, this stream of ice is squeezed down through a steep valley at an accelerated speed, and, meeting the slower moving Shackleton Shelf, rends it from top to bottom and presses onward. Thus chaos, icequake, ...
— The Home of the Blizzard • Douglas Mawson


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