Sentence examples for an ice sheet from inspiring English sources

An "ice cap" is much smaller than an "ice sheet", a term that more properly describes the huge frozen masses covering Greenland and Antarctica.

For instance, when water accumulates on the surface of an ice sheet, the reflectivity changes.

We have created an ocean where there was once an ice sheet.

One complicating factor is that the eruption is occurring under an ice sheet, the Eyjafjallajokull glacier.

He makes geological analogies (like an ice sheet, lacrosse has a "spreading center").

Crevasses are deep cracks that form in an ice sheet as a result of its movement.

It's like a nunatak, the word eskimos give to a gigantic rock that pokes above an ice sheet.

There were several Rangers stars on an ice sheet that stretched from third base to first on the stadium field.

(In May, 2007, the late celebrity cub Knut was even Photoshopped onto the cover of Vanity Fair, alongside Leonardo DiCaprio in crampons on an ice sheet).

Much of science involves studying things left behind -- rocks deposited when an ice sheet retreated, say, or animal bones discarded after a Stone Age feast.

"Connecticut is not a particularly rich state in butterfly species," said Dr. O'Donnell, "because it's small, north temperate, and was an ice sheet 10,000 years ago.