Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun A glacial covering or ice-cap extending over a large area of country, as that which is believed by many geologists to have covered much of eastern North America during the glacial period.
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This is a long-term question – if we lose the Greenland ice-sheet, will it eventually re-grow once greenhouse gas concentrations stabilize?
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This is a long-term question – if we lose the Greenland ice-sheet, will it eventually re-grow once greenhouse gas concentrations stabilize?
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This was before the ice-sheet melted backward toward the pole.
Chapter 21 2010
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Besides hell will have frozen over with several miles of ice-sheet before the French let anyone so much as lay a finger up, let alone tinker with, the CAP.
To Nobody's Surprise 2009
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When the Yukon shut up shop and went to sleep under a three-foot ice-sheet, this peripatetic couple found themselves at the Five Finger Rapids, with the City of Gold still
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It was for her, although I did not know it, that I put the stake in the pit for old Sabre-Tooth, tamed the horse, slew the mammoth, and herded my reindeer south in advance of the ice-sheet.
Chapter 21 2010
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I have often thought that that cold winter was a fore-runner of the countless cold winters to come, as the ice-sheet from farther north crept down over the face of the land.
CHAPTER VIII 2010
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Too often the reasons we disagree about what to do about climate change are framed in this way, as disputes about the truth claims of some aspect of biogeophysical science – is the world warming; are greenhouse gases responsible; will this ice-sheet collapse?
Coyote Blog » Blog Archive » Dangers of a Monoculture — Reactions to the CRU Emails 2009
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When the Yukon shut up shop and went to sleep under a three-foot ice-sheet, this peripatetic couple found themselves at the Five Finger Rapids, with the City of Gold still a journey of many sleeps to the north.
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Besides hell will have frozen over with several miles of ice-sheet before the French let anyone so much as lay a finger up, let alone tinker with, the CAP.
Archive 2009-08-30 2009
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