ABSTRACT
Marine structures such as pipelines are at risk of being damaged when in contact with scouring ice features. The ice scour process begins when a floating ice mass with a deep keel is driven into shallow water by environmental forces such as winds or currents. After contact with the seabed the ice continues to scour until the initial kinetic energy and the work done by driving forces is dissipated through work done on the seabed, or until soil resistance exceeds the strength of the ice keel. It is known that during the movement of an iceberg the soil below will displace horizontally and vertically as reported previously by Been et al. (1990b) (see Fig. 1).
