ice sheet

noun

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Over the next 60 million years, Earth has cooled, and approximately 30 million years ago the first ice sheets began to form at the poles. David Bressan, Forbes.com, 17 July 2025 The ice sheet melted rapidly at the end of the last ice age and this sudden loss of weight caused the crust to relax and gasses in the magma to expand. Soo Kim, MSNBC Newsweek, 7 July 2025 Its ice sheet produces around 10% of Greenland's icebergs. Kim Hjelmgaard, USA Today, 14 June 2025 Melting ice sheets and glaciers also contribute to sea level rise, which threatens to flood coastlines globally and inundate low-lying island nations in the Pacific Ocean. Isabella O‘Malley, Christian Science Monitor, 11 June 2025 See All Example Sentences for ice sheet

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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 3 Aug. 2025.

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