bergfield

See also: Bergfield

English

Etymology

From berg +‎ field.

Noun

bergfield (plural bergfields)

1. An expanse of ice covered with icebergs.
   • 1983, John Thomas Andrews, Glacial Marine Sediments and Sedimentation: An Annotated Bibliography:

     Bergfields, collections of grounded deep-draft floebergs (>25 m keel depths) and ice-island fragments, have been forming in the northeast Chukchi Sea since 1966 and probably earlier.