In dictionaries:
Greenland ice sheet
an ice sheet which forms the second largest body of ice in the world.
West Antarctic Ice Sheet
the segment of the continental ice sheet that covers West Antarctica, the portion of Antarctica on the side of the Transantarctic Mountains that lies in the Western Hemisphere.
Antarctic ice sheet
a continental glacier covering 98% of the Antarctic continent, with an area of and an average thickness of over .
Cordilleran ice sheet
a major ice sheet that periodically covered large parts of North America during glacial periods over the last ~2.6 million years.
Laurentide Ice Sheet
a massive sheet of ice that covered millions of square miles, including most of Canada and a large portion of the Northern United States, multiple times during the Quaternary glaciation epochs, from 2.58 million years ago to the present.
Patagonian Ice Sheet
a large elongated and narrow ice sheet centered in the southern Andes that existed during the Llanquihue glaciation.
floating ice sheet
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