ice sheet
ice sheet
Definition
ice sheet
noun
a thick layer of ice covering an extensive area for a long period, as in an ice age
ice sheet
Usage Examples
Converse of object
- ground: One response to climate change has been the retreat of five ice shelves, floating extensions of the grounded ice sheet.
- form: During the colder phases, large ice sheets formed over the northern hemisphere land masses.
Adjective modifier
- Antarctic: The most likely potential source for such an anomaly is meltwater from the Antarctic ice sheet in a global warming scenario.
- polar: Recent discoveries show a major hidden source of water comes from polar ice sheets.
- continental: The illustrated site describes the advance and retreat of the Laurentide continental ice sheet.
- large: During the colder phases, large ice sheets formed over the northern hemisphere land masses.
- permanent: The Antarctic has had a permanent ice sheet for the last 30 million years.
- Quaternary: The influence of glacier hydrology on the dynamics of a large Quaternary ice sheet.
Modifies a noun
- flow: Flow variability in the Scandinavian Ice Sheet: modeling the coupling between ice sheet flow and hydrology.
- collapse: This study polled many glaciologists and produced an assessment of the risk associated with ice sheet collapse.
- surface: The model calculates the free ice sheet surface and the coupled ice flow and temperature fields along the flow line between the boreholes.
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