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It is believed that the loss of the ice sheet would take between 2,000 and 13,000 years, although several centuries of high emissions may shorten this to 500 years. 3.3 m (10 ft 10 in) of sea level rise would occur if the ice sheet collapses but leaves ice caps on the mountains behind, and 4.3 m (14 ft 1 in) if those melt as well.
Ice caps accumulate snow on their upper surfaces, and ablate snow on their lower surfaces. [6] An ice cap in equilibrium accumulates and ablates snow at the same rate. The AAR is the ratio between the accumulation area and the total area of the ice cap, which is used to indicate the health of the glacier. [6]
The center of the range is covered by a long ice cap stretching from the Fuchs Dome in the west to Shotton Snowfield in the east, and bounded by cliffs as high as 400 metres (1,300 ft). [2] Fuchs Dome extends from Stratton Glacier east to Crossover Pass, where the plateau narrows to under 1 kilometre (0.62 mi) in width. It has an average height ...
Pages in category "Ice caps of Antarctica" The following 26 pages are in this category, out of 26 total. This list may not reflect recent changes. A. Arctowski Dome; D.
Ice caps of Antarctica (26 P) Ice caps of Canada (6 P) ... Pages in category "Ice caps" The following 12 pages are in this category, out of 12 total.
Snow Hill Island is an almost completely snowcapped island, 33 km (21 mi) long and 12 km (7.5 mi) wide, lying off the east coast of the Antarctic Peninsula.It is separated from James Ross Island to the north-east by Admiralty Sound and from Seymour Island to the north by Picnic Passage.
Dome Argus is located on the massive East Antarctic Ice Sheet and is the highest ice feature of Antarctica. [4] Dome A is a lofty ice prominence, the highest rooftop of the Antarctic Plateau, and the elevation visually is not noticeable. Below this enormous dome, underneath at least 2,400 m (7,900 ft) of ice sheet, lies the Gamburtsev Mountain ...
A low ice-covered cape forming the eastern tip of Nicholson Peninsula, at the west side of the Ross Ice Shelf. Named by the New Zealand Geological Survey Antarctic Expedition (NZGSAE) (1960–61) for Donald R. Goldschmidt, a member of the NZGSAE parties of 1959–60 and 1960–61 which mapped this area.