Ice sheet

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Term: Ice sheet
Definition: A dome-shaped mass of glacier ice that covers surrounding terrain and is greater than 50,000 square kilometers (12 million acres) (e.g., the Greenland and Antarctic ice sheets).
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Created 2022.03.08
Last Modified 2023.03.27
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