ground-ice

Quantities, however, remained as ground-ice, anchored to the kelp and stones on the bottom.

The Home of the Blizzard Being the Story of the Australasian Antarctic Expedition, 1911-1914 Douglas Mawson 1920

Here also the solid ground-ice falls away a little under the surface, leaving a cavern 8 or 9 feet deep, on the rock side of which every possible glacial fantasy was to be found.

Ice-Caves of France and Switzerland 1881

I have often watched the freezing of a rapid Scotch stream, where, in the swifter parts, the ice forms first at the bottom and gradually creeps up the larger stones till it appears on the surface, and becomes a nucleus, round which pieces of floating ice collect; and the substance in the glacière-lake had exactly the same appearance as the Scotch ground-ice.

Ice-Caves of France and Switzerland 1881

We were thus compelled to lie-to at a ground-ice so much the more certain of getting off with the first shift of the wind, and of being able to traverse the few miles that separated us from the open water at

The Voyage of the Vega round Asia and Europe, Volume I and Volume II Alexander Leslie 1866

On the evening of the 23rd September we lay-to at a ground-ice in a pretty large opening of the ice-field.

The Voyage of the Vega round Asia and Europe, Volume I and Volume II Alexander Leslie 1866

The tide was falling, and on that account it was not until next morning that we could get off, after a considerable portion of the ground-ice, on whose foot the _Vega_ had run up, had been hewn away with axes and ice-hatchets.

The Voyage of the Vega round Asia and Europe, Volume I and Volume II Alexander Leslie 1866

On the other side of this belt of ice we came again into pretty open water, but the fog, instead, became so dense that we had again to lie-to at a ground-ice, lying farther out to the sea but more to the west than our former resting-place.

The Voyage of the Vega round Asia and Europe, Volume I and Volume II Alexander Leslie 1866

Here the vessel was anchored in the lee of a ground-ice, which had stranded near the northernmost spur of Irkaipij, until a strong tidal current began to carry large pieces of drift-ice past the vessel's anchorage.

The Voyage of the Vega round Asia and Europe, Volume I and Volume II Alexander Leslie 1866

We were therefore compelled after some hours 'sailing to lie-to at a ground-ice to await more favourable circumstances.

The Voyage of the Vega round Asia and Europe, Volume I and Volume II Alexander Leslie 1866

At midnight the sun was already 12° to 13 degree below the horizon, and the nights were now so dark that at that time of day we were compelled to lie still anchored to some large ground-ice.

The Voyage of the Vega round Asia and Europe, Volume I and Volume II Alexander Leslie 1866