ice sheet

noun

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The IceCube Neutrino Observatory on the South Pole sits even deeper — between 4,750 and 8,040 feet (1,450 and 2,450 meters) deep in the ice sheet. Tereza Pultarova, Space.com, 13 May 2026 Greenland's glaciers are dumping more ice into the sea, and the ice sheet as a whole has lost mass. Julia Gomez, USA Today, 8 May 2026 Thoreau correctly interpreted that his New England landscape had been shaped by a colossal ice sheet that had flowed southward from Canada. Robert M. Thorson, The Conversation, 8 May 2026 Curated by Our Editors Such methods have revealed that as Antarctic ice sheets expanded during the last glacial maximum, sea ice got pushed farther offshore, forcing krill to move out of the petrels’ feeding ranges. Hannah Richter, Scientific American, 7 May 2026 See All Example Sentences for ice sheet

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First Known Use

1831, in the meaning defined above

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The first known use of ice sheet was in 1831

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“Ice sheet.” Merriam-Webster.com Dictionary, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/ice%20sheet. Accessed 21 May. 2026.

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