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In glaciology, an ice sheet, also known as a continental glacier, [2] is a mass of glacial ice that covers surrounding terrain and is greater than 50,000 km 2 (19,000 sq mi). [3] The only current ice sheets are the Antarctic ice sheet and the Greenland ice sheet. Ice sheets are bigger than ice shelves or alpine glaciers.
Ice sheet, any glacier that extends in continuous sheets, moving outward in all directions, whose area exceeds more than 50,000 square km (19,000 square miles). In general, such expanses of frozen water are called ice sheets if they are the size of Antarctica or Greenland and ice caps if they are.
An ice sheet is a mass of glacial land ice, extending more than 50,000 square kilometers (20,000 square miles). Ice sheets can cover underlying canyons and mountain ranges. During the last ice age, ice sheets also covered much of North America and Scandinavia.
Glaciers are made up of fallen snow that, over many years, compresses into large, thickened ice masses. An ice sheet is a dome-shaped glacier mass exceeding 50,000 square kilometers. The world's ice sheets are confined to Greenland and Antarctica.
5 Φεβ 2018 · Ice sheets are large masses of glacial ice, also known as continental glaciers, that cover at least 20,000 square miles of land. That’s roughly large enough to blanket West Virginia in ice. Ice sheets form from partially melted snow that has accumulated over thousands of years.
4 Οκτ 2024 · Glacier ice is an aggregate of irregularly shaped, interlocking single crystals that range in size from a few millimetres to several tens of centimetres. Many processes are involved in the transformation of snowpacks to glacier ice, and they proceed at a rate that depends on wetness and temperature.
Glaciers are masses of land ice, formed by the further recrystallization of firn, flowing continuously from higher to lower elevations. Ice sheets are a continuous sheet of land ice that covers a very large area and moves outward in many directions.
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