ice field
a large sheet of floating ice, larger than an ice floe.
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How to use ice field in a sentence
Outside of the southern continent, it contains more than four times as much as the rest of the planet’s glaciers and ice fields combined.
Greenland is racking up historic climate events | Sara Chodosh | September 13, 2021 | Popular-ScienceWe'll beat up through this channel to the north side of the ice-field.
Left on Labrador | Charles Asbury Stephens"Here's clear sailing round this ice-field," remarked the captain.
Left on Labrador | Charles Asbury StephensA short time later, they stepped out of the airlock onto the ice field of the frozen world.
Islands of Space | John W CampbellIn the midst of the vast ice-field loomed up many lofty bergs, all of them in motion—slow and majestic motion.
Its appearance is that of a gently undulating ice field, crevassed only toward its lower edge and remarkably clean throughout.
Mount Rainier | Various
British Dictionary definitions for ice field
a very large flat expanse of ice floating in the sea; large ice floe
a large mass of ice permanently covering an extensive area of land
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Scientific definitions for ice field
A large expanse of ice covering a mountainous region and consisting of several interconnected glaciers.
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 km (6.2 mi) across.
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