ice sheet

noun

1. a broad, thick sheet of ice covering an extensive area for a long period of time.

2. a glacier covering a large fraction of a continent.

ice sheet

noun

1. a thick layer of ice covering a large area of land for a long time, esp those in Antarctica and Greenland

Word History and Origins

Origin of ice sheet¹

First recorded in 1870–75

Example Sentences

Behind the base, the vast empty ice sheet stretches for more than 600,000 square miles.

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But on the way back down, he veered off trail and found himself trapped alongside another hiker on an ice sheet on the northern tip of Wintun Glacier at around 13,500 feet in elevation, according to the Siskiyou County Sheriff’s Office.

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The glassy cylinder is the planet's oldest ice and was drilled from deep inside the Antarctic ice sheet.

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It's the first hard evidence that the ice sheet formerly covering Britain and Ireland produced such large bergs.

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The researchers found deep, comb-like grooves, interpreted to have been created by the keels of large icebergs that broke off the British-Irish ice sheet more than 18,000 years ago.

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