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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...
    55 KB (11,580 words) - 22:32, 14 October 2024
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    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 (16,922 words) - 19:50, 31 October 2024
  • Thumbnail for Laurentide ice sheet
    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 (1,684 words) - 19:01, 20 November 2024
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    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 (10,032 words) - 17:48, 24 September 2024
  • Thumbnail for Patagonian Ice Sheet
    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...
    5 KB (523 words) - 21:36, 21 November 2024
  • Thumbnail for Cordilleran ice sheet
    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) - 03:13, 21 November 2024
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    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 (3,304 words) - 00:45, 21 November 2024
  • Thumbnail for Labrador ice sheet
    The Labrador ice sheet was a major ice sheet that periodically covered large parts of North America during glacial periods over the last ~2.6 million...
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    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 (8,871 words) - 00:37, 15 October 2024
  • Thumbnail for Keewatin ice sheet
    The Keewatin ice sheet was a major ice sheet that periodically covered large parts of North America during glacial periods over the last ~2.6 million...
    5 KB (520 words) - 12:24, 20 November 2024
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    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 (1,511 words) - 00:42, 21 November 2024
  • Thumbnail for East Antarctic Ice Sheet
    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) - 06:05, 3 October 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
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    Nansen Ice Sheet (74°53′S 163°10′E / 74.883°S 163.167°E / -74.883; 163.167) is a 30 nautical miles (56 km; 35 mi) long by 10 nautical miles (19 km;...
    7 KB (1,014 words) - 23:53, 31 August 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)...
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    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 (1,512 words) - 02:08, 5 August 2024
  • Thumbnail for Greenland Ice Sheet Project
    The Greenland Ice Sheet Project (GISP) was a decade-long project to drill ice cores in Greenland that involved scientists and funding agencies from Denmark...
    7 KB (544 words) - 18:39, 22 December 2020
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    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 (10,426 words) - 18:22, 16 November 2024
  • The Foxe-Baffin ice sheet was the most northerly portion of the Laurentide Ice Sheet, centered in the Foxe Basin between Baffin Island and the Melville...
    2 KB (135 words) - 12:22, 20 November 2024
  • under the ice, a highly publicized "cover" project, known as Camp Century, was launched in 1960. Unstable ice conditions within the ice sheet caused the...
    15 KB (1,641 words) - 13:34, 15 November 2024
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