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Ice Sheet

Term · Environment · MLC-T-ENV-013788

A glacier of considerable thickness and more than 50,000 sq km in area. It forms a continuous cover of ice and snow over a land surface. An ice sheet is not confined by the underlying topography but spreads outward in all directions. During the Pleistocene Epoch, ice sheets covered large parts of North America and northern Europe but they are now confined to polar regions (e.g., Greenland and Antarctica).

Table 1. Record
IdentifierMLC-T-ENV-013788
FieldEnvironment
ReferencesNASA Sustainable Development Indicators Glossary
Record as JSON 
{
  "id": "MLC-T-ENV-013788",
  "term": "Ice Sheet",
  "field": "Environment",
  "definition": "A glacier of considerable thickness and more than 50,000 sq km in area. It forms a continuous cover of ice and snow over a land surface. An ice sheet is not confined by the underlying topography but spreads outward in all directions. During the Pleistocene Epoch, ice sheets covered large parts of North America and northern Europe but they are now confined to polar regions (e.g., Greenland and Antarctica).",
  "references": [
    "NASA Sustainable Development Indicators Glossary"
  ],
  "url": "https://mlchart.com/terminology/environment/ice-sheet/"
}

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