continental ice sheet
C18072
concept
A continental ice sheet is a massive, continuous expanse of glacial ice that covers vast land areas, often burying underlying topography and shaping the landscape over long geological timescales.
Observed surface forms (4)
- glacial region ×2
- Pleistocene glaciation feature ×1
- Quaternary megascale glacier ×1
- glacial ice mass ×1
Instances (7)
- Fennoscandian Ice Sheet
- Patagonian Ice Fields via concept surface "glacial region"
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Laurentide Ice Sheet in North America
surface form: Laurentide Ice Sheet
- Northern Hemisphere ice sheets via concept surface "Quaternary megascale glacier"
- Cordilleran Ice Sheet
- Chorabari Glacier region via concept surface "glacial region"
- Barents–Kara Ice Sheet via concept surface "glacial ice mass"