Sentence examples for vast ice from inspiring English sources

Its landmass is almost wholly covered by a vast ice sheet.

A number of scientists noted that Greenland's vast ice sheet was shrinking at a highly increased rate.

But for scientists studying the fate of the vast ice sheets of Greenland and West Antarctica, the situation seems reversed.

Because of this vast ice, the continent supports only a primitive indigenous population of cold-adapted land plants and animals.

In it Agassiz showed that at a geologically recent period Switzerland had been covered by one vast ice sheet.

The melting of the Arctic is both a blessing and a curseTHE Arctic's glaciers, including those of Greenland's vast ice cap, are retreating (see map above).

Erik the Red thought up the name "Greenland" in about 985 to persuade visitors to come to a vast, ice-bound land mass he'd just discovered a few hundred miles west of Iceland.

These lavas form ice-marginal edifies, suggesting that every lava flow was erupted about 10,000 years ago when the vast Cordilleran Ice Sheet was retreating and remains of glacial ice was sparse.

There is ample evidence linking vast prehistoric ice jams to megafloods that shaped landforms seen today.

"It doesn't get any better than that," Stuart said as we drove away from his vast Austin ice plant.

Its floor is littered with blue and white flakes of peeled paint that evoke a vast Arctic ice pack.