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"ice sheet" is correct and usable in written English.
You can use it when referring to a large mass of ice that covers a large area of land, such as a glacier or an ice cap. For example, "The Greenland ice sheet is melting faster than previously predicted."
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ice sheet
noun
A broad glacial mass with a relatively flat surface
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The ice sheet shrank.
The Scandinavian ice sheet surged south.
Owen Gibson (@owen_g) The ice sheet of, er, destiny.
It's actually growing colder, and the ice sheet is thickening.
Melt from the Greenland ice sheet is accelerating.
The same thing happens on the ice sheet.
As the ice sheet warms, it flows faster.
It shows a very fast response of the ice sheet.
The largest ice sheet, the Greenland Inland Ice, is second in area only to the Antarctic Ice Sheet.
The two most relevant masses of ice that covered northwestern Europe in late Pleistocene time were the Fennoscandian Ice Sheet and the British Ice Sheet.
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