Sentence examples for massive ice sheets from inspiring English sources

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.

THE biggest unknown factor in making predictions of rising sea levels in response to global warming is the role played by the massive ice sheets that cover Antarctica and Greenland.

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.

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.

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.

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

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

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.

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

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.