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ice dam

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ice
noun
uk /aɪs/ us /aɪs/
water that has frozen and become solid, or pieces ...
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dam
noun[C]
uk /dæm/ us /dæm/
a wall built across a river that stops the river's flow and collects the water, especially to make a reservoir (= an artificial lake) that provides water for ...
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The icedam has not reformed.
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The term icedam has three meanings (others discussed below).
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The lake was held back by an icedam of the remaining glacier.
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The rising lake waters finally broke out from the icedam.
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The ice-dammed lake drained catastrophically by floating its icedam.
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This allowed liquid water to seep into minuscule cracks present in the icedam.
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Its cause was the sudden release of a massive, 4-mile-long icedam.
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This definition includes what some scientists call an icedam as a... bottom accumulation of anchor ice...
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Ice jams (sometimes called an icedam), when broken chunks of ice pile up, are the greatest ice hazard on rivers.
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She then leads her silver dragons upstream, where they used their frost breath to create an icedam, blocking the river.
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A series of floods occurring over the period of 18,000 and 13,000 years ago swept over the landscape when the icedam broke.
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After the icedam breaks apart, the sudden surge of water that breaks through the dam can then flood areas downstream of the jam. 3.
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Colder temperatures downstream can also potentially lead to freezing of water as it flows north, thus augmenting the icedam problem.
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The mechanisms of lake filling and icedam failure would suggest an early or late glacial time, whereas conditions at glacial maxima would seem to preclude such events.
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This feedback cycle eventually weakened the icedam so much that it could no longer support the pressure of the water behind it, and it failed catastrophically.
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Such breaching events are often caused by the sudden calving of glacier ice into a lake, which then causes a displacement wave to breach a moraine or icedam.
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The breakup of this icedam would send a violent wall of water, ice and debris down the river valley causing massive flooding and sometimes devastation to local settlers' properties.
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