ice sheet

noun

a broad, thick sheet of ice covering an extensive area for a long period of time.
a glacier covering a large fraction of a continent.

ice sheet

a thick layer of ice covering a large area of land for a long time, esp those in Antarctica and Greenland

First recorded in 1870–75

The warmer Arctic has dramatically accelerated the melting of the Greenland ice sheet.

The ice sheet, which was in time to bury half of Europe under its chilly mantle, had begun its slow movement toward the south.

From the ship's deck, even when within a mile, the outcrop had appeared to project directly from under the inland ice-sheet.

The sunset was a picture of prismatic colours reflected over the undulating ice-sheet and the tumbling cascades of the glacier.

The ice sheet did not come further south than the Thames valley.

The existence of the ice-sheet has been conjured up in order to explain the presence of the boulder-clay.

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