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• Polar ice cap — A polar ice cap is a high latitude region of a planet or moon that is covered in ice. There are no requirements with respect to size or composition for a body of ice to be termed a polar ice cap, nor any geological requirement for it to be over… …   Wikipedia

• Ice sheet — An ice sheet is a mass of glacier ice that covers surrounding terrain and is greater than 50,000 km² (20,000 mile²). [cite web|url=http://gemini.oscs.montana.edu/ geol445/hyperglac/glossary.htm|accessdate=2006 08 22|title=Glossary of Important… …   Wikipedia

• Polar ice packs — [ NOAA Projected Arctic changes] Polar ice packs are large areas of pack ice formed from seawater in the Earth s polar regions, known as polar ice caps: the Arctic ice pack (or Arctic ice cap) of the Arctic Ocean and the Antarctic ice pack of the …   Wikipedia

• ice sheet — noun : a glacial ice cover : ice cap the ice sheets on some Greenland promontories especially : one (as a continental glacier) spreading outward over a large land area and concealing all or most surface features the great ice sheets covering much …   Useful english dictionary

• Greenland ice sheet — The Greenland Ice Sheet is a vast body of ice covering 1.71 million km², roughly 80% of the surface of Greenland. It is the second largest ice body in the world, after the Antarctic Ice Sheet. The ice sheet is almost 2,400 kilometers long in a… …   Wikipedia

• Antarctic ice sheet — The Antarctic ice sheet is one of the two polar ice caps of the Earth. It covers about 98% of the Antarctic continent and is the largest single mass of ice on Earth. It covers an area of almost 14 million square km and contains 30 million cubic… …   Wikipedia

• Nansen Ice Sheet — (74°53′S 163°10′E / 74.883°S 163.167°E / 74.883; 163.167Coordinates …   Wikipedia

• West Antarctic Ice Sheet — The West Antarctic Ice Sheet (WAIS) is the segment of the continental ice sheet that covers West (or Lesser) Antarctica, the portion of Antarctica west of the Transantarctic Mountains. The WAIS is classified as a marine based ice sheet, meaning… …   Wikipedia

• East Antarctic Ice Sheet — The East Antarctic Ice Sheet (EAIS) is one of two large ice sheets in Antarctica, and the largest in the entire world. It rests upon a large land mass, contrary to that of the West Antarctic Ice Sheet (WAIS), which rests on frozen water. The… …   Wikipedia

• Greenland Ice Sheet Program — Das Greenland Ice Sheet Project (GISP) war ein Bohrprogramm zur Gewinnung von Eisbohrkernen aus dem grönländischen Eisschild, um damit paläoklimatologische Daten zu gewinnen. Es wurde von der amerikanischen National Science Foundation (NSF)… …   Deutsch Wikipedia

• Greenland Ice Sheet Project — Das Greenland Ice Sheet Project (GISP) war ein Bohrprogramm zur Gewinnung von Eisbohrkernen aus dem grönländischen Eisschild, um damit paläoklimatologische Daten zu gewinnen. Es wurde von der amerikanischen National Science Foundation (NSF)… …   Deutsch Wikipedia