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- current ice sheets are the Antarctic ice sheet and the Greenland ice sheet. Ice sheets are bigger than ice shelves or alpine glaciers. Masses of ice covering...54 KB (11,519 words) - 11:55, 20 June 2024
- The Greenland ice sheet is an ice sheet which forms the second largest body of ice in the world. It is an average of 1.67 km (1.0 mi) thick, and over 3 km...163 KB (16,910 words) - 00:44, 26 June 2024
- The Laurentide ice sheet was a massive sheet of ice that covered millions of square miles, including most of Canada and a large portion of the Northern...14 KB (1,672 words) - 21:19, 11 June 2024
- The Antarctic ice sheet is a continental glacier covering 98% of the Antarctic continent, with an area of 14 million square kilometres (5.4 million square...36 KB (10,096 words) - 16:21, 26 June 2024
- Weichselian glaciation (redirect from Fennoscandian ice sheet)to the Würm glaciation. It was characterized by a large ice sheet (the Fenno-Scandian ice sheet) that spread out from the Scandinavian Mountains and extended...28 KB (3,298 words) - 20:46, 29 April 2024
- The Cordilleran ice sheet was a major ice sheet that periodically covered large parts of North America during glacial periods over the last ~2.6 million...15 KB (1,734 words) - 15:25, 12 June 2024
- Wisconsin glaciation (redirect from Wisconsin Ice Sheet)period of the North American ice sheet complex, peaking more than 20,000 years ago. This advance included the Cordilleran Ice Sheet, which nucleated in the...16 KB (1,493 words) - 22:09, 26 May 2024
- presence or expansion of continental and polar ice sheets and alpine glaciers. Earth's climate alternates between ice ages, and greenhouse periods during which...88 KB (10,420 words) - 14:45, 27 June 2024
- 27806°W / -78.73417; -133.27806 The West Antarctic Ice Sheet (WAIS) is the segment of the continental ice sheet that covers West Antarctica, the portion of Antarctica...75 KB (8,837 words) - 04:26, 24 June 2024
- Sea level rise (section Greenland ice sheet loss)human activities is the main cause.: 5, 8 Between 1993 and 2018, melting ice sheets and glaciers accounted for 44% of sea level rise, with another 42% resulting...190 KB (21,166 words) - 13:39, 22 June 2024
- referred to as ice sheets. The composition of the ice will vary. For example, Earth's polar caps are mainly water ice, whereas Mars's polar ice caps are a...13 KB (1,504 words) - 20:40, 18 May 2024
- Patagonian Ice Sheet was a large elongated and narrow ice sheet centered in the southern Andes that existed during the Llanquihue glaciation. The ice sheet covered...4 KB (483 words) - 11:29, 2 April 2024
- Last Glacial Period (redirect from Recent ice age)Quaternary Period both began with the formation of the Arctic ice cap. The Antarctic ice sheet began to form earlier, at about 34 Mya, in the mid-Cenozoic...47 KB (5,292 words) - 19:57, 17 June 2024
- and ice caps - up to and including the potential to form ice sheets. However, if the warming occurs, then higher temperatures would decrease ice-covered...29 KB (3,514 words) - 17:38, 11 April 2024
- Mount Takahe (section Tephra in ice cores)the parts of the edifice that are buried underneath the West Antarctic Ice Sheet are probably even larger. It is part of the West Antarctic Rift System...53 KB (5,485 words) - 17:20, 11 May 2024
- modelling, Ice-sheet models use numerical methods to simulate the evolution, dynamics and thermodynamics of ice sheets, such as the Greenland ice sheet, the...20 KB (2,300 words) - 05:27, 24 March 2024
- where it can aggregate from snow to form glaciers and ice sheets. As snowflakes and hail, ice is a common form of precipitation, and it may also be deposited...116 KB (12,763 words) - 11:16, 27 June 2024
- Ice Sheet (EAIS) lies between 45° west and 168° east longitudinally. It was first formed around 34 million years ago, and it is the largest ice sheet...40 KB (4,344 words) - 22:17, 26 June 2024
- of glacier ice Sheet, the playing surface in the sport of curling Sheet, thin plate of metal Sheet, an object of a spectral sequence Sheet music (disambiguation)...1 KB (244 words) - 07:24, 18 June 2024
- Cryosphere (section Ice sheet melt)where water is in solid form, including sea ice, lake ice, river ice, snow cover, glaciers, ice caps, ice sheets, and frozen ground (which includes permafrost)...28 KB (8,714 words) - 14:49, 10 May 2024
- article on: ice sheet Wikipedia ice sheet (plural ice sheets) A broad glacial mass with a relatively flat surface. broad glacial mass ice cap cheese it
- Greenland ice sheet, the Malaspina ice sheet between Mount St. Elias and the ocean, many glaciers southward along the Cordilleran mountain belt, and the ice fields
- Rtrieved: 14, November, 2023 "Ice cores are cylinders of ice drilled out of an ice sheet or glacier. They’re an exceptional record of past climate."
- tossed by giants, and massive ice sheets tumbling down the valleys of mountains, piles of ice and snow. Of blue green ice that jaggedly pointed skyward