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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
“Collins English Dictionary — Complete & Unabridged” 2012 Digital Edition © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1979, 1986 © HarperCollins Publishers 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2012


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Word History and Origins

Origin of ice sheet1

First recorded in 1870–75
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Example Sentences

Wilmot’s slopes are glacial sediment deposited about 18,000 to 15,000 years ago when two lobes of the massive ice sheet that covered much of Canada and the northern United States collided.

You can even use this trick to burn a fire out on an ice sheet, though it’s hazardous.

To understand how water could have persisted in this chilly environment, Ojha and his colleagues estimated whether heat from the planet’s interior could have melted the base of ice sheets in the planet’s southern highlands.

As our climate warms, the planet’s ice sheets are vanishing faster than anyone expected, pouring meltwater into rising seas.

This makes the ice sheets susceptible to both warmer ocean water and sea level rise.

The warmer Arctic has dramatically accelerated the melting of the Greenland ice sheet.

The ice sheet, which was in time to bury half of Europe under its chilly mantle, had begun its slow movement toward the south.

From the ship's deck, even when within a mile, the outcrop had appeared to project directly from under the inland ice-sheet.

The sunset was a picture of prismatic colours reflected over the undulating ice-sheet and the tumbling cascades of the glacier.

The ice sheet did not come further south than the Thames valley.

The existence of the ice-sheet has been conjured up in order to explain the presence of the boulder-clay.

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