Polar ice sheets: a review
At the present time, only Antarctica and Greenland carry ice sheets comparable with the ice sheets that covered vast areas of the Northern Hemisphere as recently as 20 000 years ago. At the time of maximum glaciation, some 300 000 years ago, the volume of ice on earth was three times what it is toda...
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crcambridgeupr:10.1017/s0032247400062380 2024-03-03T08:39:13+00:00 Polar ice sheets: a review Robin, G. de Q. 1972 http://dx.doi.org/10.1017/s0032247400062380 https://www.cambridge.org/core/services/aop-cambridge-core/content/view/S0032247400062380 en eng Cambridge University Press (CUP) https://www.cambridge.org/core/terms Polar Record volume 16, issue 100, page 5-22 ISSN 0032-2474 1475-3057 General Earth and Planetary Sciences Ecology Geography, Planning and Development journal-article 1972 crcambridgeupr https://doi.org/10.1017/s0032247400062380 2024-02-08T08:42:31Z At the present time, only Antarctica and Greenland carry ice sheets comparable with the ice sheets that covered vast areas of the Northern Hemisphere as recently as 20 000 years ago. At the time of maximum glaciation, some 300 000 years ago, the volume of ice on earth was three times what it is today, and it covered the northern parts of continents all around the Arctic Ocean. In North America, ice stretched south as far as Kansas; in Europe, it extended down ot the River Thames and the Sudety mountains and covered much of Siberia. Even now, the Antarctic ice sheet covers an area of 12 million km 2 and in places reaches depths of more than 4 km. The smaller Greenland ice sheet has an area of 1.8 million km 2 and exceeds 3 km in depth. Article in Journal/Newspaper Antarc* Antarctic Antarctica Arctic Arctic Ocean Greenland Ice Sheet Polar Record Siberia Cambridge University Press Arctic Antarctic The Antarctic Arctic Ocean Greenland Polar Record 16 100 5 22 |
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At the present time, only Antarctica and Greenland carry ice sheets comparable with the ice sheets that covered vast areas of the Northern Hemisphere as recently as 20 000 years ago. At the time of maximum glaciation, some 300 000 years ago, the volume of ice on earth was three times what it is today, and it covered the northern parts of continents all around the Arctic Ocean. In North America, ice stretched south as far as Kansas; in Europe, it extended down ot the River Thames and the Sudety mountains and covered much of Siberia. Even now, the Antarctic ice sheet covers an area of 12 million km 2 and in places reaches depths of more than 4 km. The smaller Greenland ice sheet has an area of 1.8 million km 2 and exceeds 3 km in depth. |
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