Difference between Ice Field and Ice Floe

ICE FIELD vs ICE FLOE: NOUN

A large expanse of floating ice (several miles long)
A network of interconnected glaciers or ice streams having a common source
A great sheet or floe of ice, at times so extensive in arctic seas that its limits cannot be seen from the masthead.
An extensive area of ice on the surface of the ocean, consisting of multiple ice floes and covering an area that is greater than 10 kilometers (6 miles) across.
A large expanse of ice covering a mountainous region and consisting of several interconnected glaciers.
A large flat mass of ice (larger than an ice floe) floating at sea

Frigid zone, Icefield, Ice over, Snowdrift, Snowfield, Drift ice, Icecap, Ice foot, Glacier, Superglacial, Ice cap, Hummocking, Ice mass, Ice floe, Floe

Icebound, Arctic circle, Finback whale, Icecap, Glacier, Antarctic, Frobisher bay, Harp seal, Arctic, Bering sea, Icebreaker, Arctic ocean, Ice, Ice field, Floe

Frigid zone, Icefield, Ice over, Snowdrift, Snowfield, Drift ice, Icecap, Ice foot, Glacier, Superglacial, Ice cap, Hummocking, Ice mass, Ice floe, Floe

Icefield, Icebound, Arctic circle, Finback whale, Icecap, Glacier, Antarctic, Frobisher bay, Harp seal, Arctic, Bering sea, Icebreaker, Arctic ocean, Ice, Floe

Law enforcement officials, requesting to visit with a detainee, are referred to the ICE Field Office for approval.
While the OIG report documented extensive abuses, its sole recommendation was that ICE field offices review the problems.
Snow blindness is the effect that glarefrom an ice field or snowfield has on the eyes.
ICE Field Offices instituted a number of solutions, all of which have been deemed legally sufficient.
One was trained on Critch, who appeared relaxed as she freely turnedthe wheel and steered through the ice field.
Then, driven by its powerful propeller, it attacked this ice field from below like a fearsome battering ram.
Agreement, DEA and ICE field offices we contacted reported using a variety of mechanisms.
The ice field, mighty sculptor that it was, wrought marvelous changes in its passage.
However, the ice field has been neglected in mass balance studies.
Little by little the Ice Bank was turning into an ice field again.

The 74-member crew of the Spirit of Mawson is preparing to spend their New Year's Eve trapped in an Antarctic ice floe.
Meanwhile, a community farther north reported hunters being trapped when icebreakers cut them off from the mainland, leaving them stranded on an ice floe.
Flve men were drowned Tuesday when the steamer Eber Ward collided with a heavy ice floe and sank five miles west of here.
Another fell in and was able to climb out, but was then stuck on an ice floe.
Bremerhaven steered into a massive ice floe in the Siberian Arctic and became frozen in place.
Oil City Creek is prone to flooding in the early spring, due to ice floe jams.
Seek a thick ice floe in the general vicinity of the aircraft.
Sensors are deployed within a few dozen meters of each other on the same ice floe.
These include * "Ice Floe 9", composed by Pierre Arvay.