A glacier of considerable thickness and more than 50,000 sq km in area. It forms a continuous cover of ice and snow over a land surface. An ice sheet is not confined by the underlying topography but spreads outward in all directions. During the Pleistocene Epoch, ice sheets covered large parts of North America and northern Europe but they are now confined to polar regions (e.g., Greenland and Antarctica).
A large mass of ice covering a significant portion of a continent as in Greenland and Antarctica.
A vast glacier that covers the landscape.
A thick, permanent layer of ice that covers a very large area, like Antarctica.
large thick plate of glacial ice moving outward in all direction
A mass of ice and snow of considerable thickness and large area. Ice sheets may be resting on rock (see Inland ice sheet) or floating (see Ice shelf). Ice sheets of less than 50,000 square kilometers in area are called ice caps.
A thick, extensive body of glacial ice that is not confined to valleys. Localized ice sheets are sometimes called ice caps.
A dome-shaped glacier covering an area greater than 50,000 square kilometers. Greenland and Antarctica are considered ice sheets. During the glacial advances of the Pleistocene ice sheets covered large areas of North America, Europe, and Asia. Larger than an ice cap.
A glacier of considerable thickness and more than 50,000 square kilometers in area, forming a continuous cover of snow and ice over a land surface, spreading outward in all directions and not confined by the underlying topography. Ice sheets are now confined to polar regions (as on Greenland and Antarctica), but during the Pleistocene Epoch they covered large parts of North America and northern Europe.
a mass of ice that is not restricted to a valley but covers a large area of land
a large tabular sheet of ice
A large, continental glacier that is not confined by the underlying topography. The northeastern quarter of North America was covered about a dozen times by the Laurentide Ice Sheet during the Ice Age, between 2.5 million and 10,000 years ago. Today, ice sheets are found only in polar regions such as Greenland and Antarctica.
Subject: Geology Continent-sized masses of ice that overwhelm nearly all the land surface within their margins. Reference : Skinner B.J., S.C.Porter & J.Park (2004), DYNAMIC EARTH, 5th edition, Jon Wiley & Sons. [ Pics List
A thick, subcontinental to continental-scale accumulation of glacier ice and perennial snow that spreads from a center of accumulation, typically in all directions. Also called a Continental Glacier.
A gigantic domed glacier, like those present in antiparticle and Greenland
a mass of snow and ice of considerable thickness and large area greater than 50,000 km2
An ice sheet is a continuous mass of ice and snow of considerable thickness and covering a large area of rock or water. The Antarctic ice sheet is the largest single mass of ice on Earth.
A large mass of ice that is thick enough to cover the landscape beneath it so appearing as a smooth coating of ice. Ice sheets can deform and move with gravity, they are larger than ice caps. Ice sheets cover much of Greenland and Antarctica. Freshwater.
a dome-shaped mass of glacier ice that covers surrounding terrain and is greater than 50,000 square kilometers (12 million acres) (e.g., the Greenland and Antarctic ice sheets).
An ice sheet is a mass of glacier ice that covers surrounding terrain and is greater than 50,000 km² (19,305 mile²). The only current ice sheets are Antarctic and Greenland; during the last ice age at Last Glacial Maximum (LGM) the Laurentide ice sheet covered much of Canada and North America, the Weichselian ice sheet covered northern Europe and the Patagonian Ice Sheet covered southern South America.
