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2. Antarctic ice sheet - Wikipedia

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   The Antarctic ice sheet is a continental glacier covering 98% of ... of sea level rise would occur if the ice sheet collapses but leaves ice caps on the mountains ...

3. Ice cap - Wikipedia

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   In glaciology, an ice cap is a mass of ice that covers less than 50,000 km 2 (19,000 sq mi) of land area (usually covering a highland area). Larger ice masses covering more than 50,000 km 2 (19,000 sq mi) are termed ice sheets .

4. Ice cap climate - Wikipedia

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   An ice cap climate is a polar climate where no mean monthly temperature exceeds 0 °C (32 °F). ... Antarctica is surrounded on all sides by the Southern Ocean. As a ...

5. Antarctica’s melting ice may awaken hidden volcanoes, study warns

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   Melting ice in Antarctica could trigger volcanic eruptions beneath the continent’s vast ice sheet, ... The study highlights how the weight of the ice sheet acts as a cap on the magma below. When ...

6. Record low sea-ice levels around Antarctica ‘likely due to ...

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   In 2023, the Antarctic sea ice reached record-low levels, with over 2 million square kilometres less ice than usual during winter – about 10 times the size of the UK.

7. West Antarctic Ice Sheet - Wikipedia

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   The former shows specific patterns in silt deposition and the latter genetic connections between currently separate subpopulations; both are impossible unless there was no ice outside of mountain caps in the West Antarctica around 125,000 years ago, during Marine Isotope Stage 5. Since that period was only 0.5 °C (0.90 °F) to 1.5 °C (2.7 °F ...

8. Late Cenozoic Ice Age - Wikipedia

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   Another ice cap formed in the Transantarctic Mountains. [10] At this point, the ice caps weren't very big yet. [10] Most of Antarctica wasn't covered by ice. [10] By 28.7 million years ago, the Gamburtsev ice cap was now much larger due to the colder climate. [10] CO 2 continued to fall and the climate continued to get colder. [10] At 28.1 ...

9. Ice sheet - Wikipedia

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   Greenland ice sheet as seen from space. An ice sheet is a body of ice which covers a land area of continental size - meaning that it exceeds 50,000 km 2. [4] The currently existing two ice sheets in Greenland and Antarctica have a much greater area than this minimum definition, measuring at 1.7 million km 2 and 14 million km 2, respectively.