A stamukha (plural: ''stamukhi''; from Russian стамуха) is a grounded accumulation of sea ice rubble that typically develops along the boundary between

fast ice Fast ice (also called ''land-fast ice'', ''landfast ice'', and ''shore-fast ice'') is sea ice that is "fastened" to the coastline, to the sea floor along shoals or to grounded icebergs.Leppäranta, M. 2011. The Drift of Sea Ice. Berlin: Springer ...

and the drifting pack ice, or becomes incorporated into the fast ice.Barnes, P.W., D., McDowell & Reimnitz, E. (1978). Ice gouging characteristics: Their changing patterns from 1975-1977, Beaufort Sea, Alaska. United States Department of the Interior, Geological Survey Open File Report 78-730, Menlo Park, U.S.A., 42 p.Ogorodov, S.A. & Arkhipov, V.V. (2010) Caspian Sea bottom scouring by hummocky ice floes. Doklady Earth Sciences, 432, 1, pp. 703-707.Davies, T. A., Bell, T., Cooper, A. K., Josenhans, H., Polyak, L., Solheim, A., Stoker, M. S. & Stravers, J. A. (1997). Glaciated continental margins: An atlas of acoustic images. N.Y.: Chapman & Hall, p. 312. It is a pressure ridge. Wind, currents and tides contribute to this phenomenon. Stamukhi tend to occur in belts that are parallel to the shoreline, along coastal

shoal In oceanography, geomorphology, and geoscience, a shoal is a natural submerged ridge, bank, or bar that consists of, or is covered by, sand or other unconsolidated material and rises from the bed of a body of water to near the surface. It ...

s, at water depths of about 20 m (65 ft), but that can reach 50 m (160 ft).Barnes, P.W., Asbury, J.L., Rearic, D.M. & Ross, C.R. (1987). Ice erosion of a sea-floor knickpoint at the inner edge of the stamukhi zone, Beaufort Sea, Alaska. Marine Geology, 76, pp. 207-222. They can build up to heights or more above the waterline. Although they remain pinned to the seabed, these features can be subject to small displacements, either due to thermal expansion or to the pressure exerted by the drifting pack ice onto the fast ice.Wadhams, P. (2000) Ice in the Ocean, Gordon and Breach Science Publ., London, p. 71 Because stamukhi tend to be deeply grounded, they may occur as isolated ice features in the open sea during the summer season, after the surrounding ice has melted away.Wadhams, P. (2000) Ice in the Ocean, Gordon and Breach Science Publ., London, p. 71 Since stamukhi extend downward into the seabed, they present a risk to

submarine pipeline A submarine pipeline (also known as marine, subsea or offshore pipeline) is a pipeline that is laid on the seabed or below it inside a trench.Dean, p. 338-340Gerwick, p. 583-585 In some cases, the pipeline is mostly on-land but in places it crosse ...

s and

telecommunications cable Telecommunications cables are a type of guided transmission mediums. Cables are usually known to transmit electric energy (alternating current, AC/direct current, DC); however, cables in telecommunications fields are used to transmit electromagnetic ...

s that cross the shoreline.Palmer, A.C. & Been, K. (2011) Pipeline geohazards for Arctic conditions. In: W.O. McCarron (Ed.), Deepwater Foundations and Pipeline Geomechanics. J. Ross Publishing, Fort Lauderdale, Florida, pp. 171-188. Seabed penetration by the ice can reach a depth of .Astaviev, V.N., Polomoshnov, A.M. & Truskov, P.A. (1991) Stamukhi on the northern Sakhalin offshore. Proceedings of the 1st International Offshore and Polar Engineering Conference. The International Society of Offshore and Polar Engineers (ISOPE), Edinburgh, pp. 462-466.

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