green ice

DCHP-1 (pre-1967)

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salt-water ice in a melting state.

Quotations

1916

It would be slow . . . on the treacherous reaches of green ice between the floe and the Spotted Horses.

1930

Salt-water ice does not "candle" in melting but remains solid green ice, perforated by holes and broken by cracks.