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Definition of ice sheet in English: ice sheetnoun A layer of ice covering an extensive tract of land for a long period of time. Example sentencesExamples - Several scientists have proposed that the southern part of the Greenland ice sheet disappeared during the period of maximum interglacial warmth.
- We consider climate and sea level as the two most likely mechanisms for early deglaciation of the British-Irish ice sheet.
- The results present estimates of the thermal, hydrological and mechanical effects of a regional ice sheet, determined from a simplified ice-sheet model.
- Younger cited evidence for extensive ground freezing in SE England during the Devensian, beyond the limit of the Devensian ice sheet.
- Later, as the permafrost melted and the ice sheet warmed as a result of climatic amelioration, the ice would have become wetbased.
Definition of ice sheet in US English: ice sheetnounˈīs ˌSHētˈaɪs ˌʃit A permanent layer of ice covering an extensive tract of land, especially a polar region. Example sentencesExamples - We consider climate and sea level as the two most likely mechanisms for early deglaciation of the British-Irish ice sheet.
- Several scientists have proposed that the southern part of the Greenland ice sheet disappeared during the period of maximum interglacial warmth.
- The results present estimates of the thermal, hydrological and mechanical effects of a regional ice sheet, determined from a simplified ice-sheet model.
- Later, as the permafrost melted and the ice sheet warmed as a result of climatic amelioration, the ice would have become wetbased.
- Younger cited evidence for extensive ground freezing in SE England during the Devensian, beyond the limit of the Devensian ice sheet.
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