Sentence examples for massive ice sheet from inspiring English sources

Greenland's major physical feature is its massive ice sheet, which is second only to Antarctica's in size.

At one point this summer, 97 percent of the surface of Greenland's massive ice sheet was melting.

Scientists say there has been a freak event in Greenland this month: Nearly every part of the massive ice sheet that blankets the island suddenly started melting.

Or take another example: Greenland's July thaw, where satellite data showed that about 97% of the massive ice sheet surface covering the island was melting.

But orbital variations in themselves aren't nearly sufficient to produce the sort of massive ice sheet that moved the Madison Boulder.

The Antarctic Peninsula connects to an area of the Antarctic called West Antarctica, where the massive ice sheet sits on bedrock that is up to 2km below sea level.

Open year-round Glaciers are long gone from Nevada nowadays, but during the last ice age, massive ice sheets covered the northern reaches of the state.

As the Ice Age ended and the massive ice sheets across the globe melted, global sea levels rose and flooded the canyon.

At the same time, there was a rapid melting of Arctic sea ice and an acceleration in the loss of ice from the massive ice sheets of Greenland and the Antarctic.

But they act like a cork in a bottle at the point where glaciers meet the sea – jamming the flow of ice from the massive ice sheets of east and west Antarctica.

Antarctica, for example, had not been expected to show a net loss of ice for another century, but recent studies indicate that the continent's massive ice sheets are already shrinking.