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Ice sheet
- abstract: An ice sheet is a mass of glacier ice that covers surrounding terrain and is greater than , thus also known as continental glacier.American Meteorological Society, Glossary of Meteorology The only current ice sheets are in Antarctica and Greenland; during the last glacial period at Last Glacial Maximum (LGM) the Laurentide ice sheet covered much of North America, the Weichselian ice sheet covered northern Europe and the Patagonian Ice Sheet covered southern South America.
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ice sheet
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N-COUNT An ice sheet is a large thick area of ice, especially one that exists for a long time. (尤指长期存在的)冰盖; 冰冠; 冰原
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It was the midcontinental corridor between two massive ice sheets—the Laurentide to the west—that enabled the southward migration.
正是两块巨大的冰原之间的半大陆性质的通道——西面的劳伦斯泰德冰原——使人们向南迁移成为可能。
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For example, as the great ice sheets that covered North America during the last ice age steadily melted away, huge volumes of water flowed from them.
例如，随着覆盖北美的大冰原在最后一个冰河时代逐渐融化，大量的水从冰原流出。
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Ice sheets retreated and sea levels rose.
冰盖消退，海平面上升。
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Signs of climate change include an increase in rain when there used to be only snow, new plant life,and melting ice sheets.
VOA: special.2009.06.03
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But scientists disagree about how much sea levels could rise if Antarctica's ice sheets continue to melt.
VOA: special.2009.06.03
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Many of the lakes around the Grand Tetons were formed millions of years ago by slow-moving sheets of ice.
VOA: special.2009.02.16
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