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adjective
- 1. having a layer of ice on the surface: "an ice-covered lake"
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2 days ago · Antarctica, the world’s southernmost continent, is almost wholly covered by an ice sheet and is about 5.5 million square miles (14.2 million square km) in size. It is divided into East Antarctica (largely composed of a high ice-covered plateau) and West Antarctica (an archipelago of ice-covered mountainous islands).
- History
Antarctica - Exploration, Wildlife, Ice: Many nations were...
- Glaciers and Seas
Antarctica - Glaciers, Seas, Ice: Antarctica provides the...
- Biological Resources
Antarctica - Wildlife, Marine Life, Ecosystems: Marine...
- The Antarctic Treaty
Antarctica - Treaty, Continent, Wildlife: With the ending of...
- Animal Life
Antarctica - Penguins, Seals, Whales: The native land fauna...
- Plant Life
Antarctica - Flora, Fauna, Ecosystems: The cold desert...
- Physical Geography
Antarctica - Ice, Wildlife, Continent: The geologic...
- Discovery of The Antarctic Poles
Antarctica - Exploration, Ice, Wildlife: National and...
- History
5 days ago · glacier, any large mass of perennial ice that originates on land by the recrystallization of snow or other forms of solid precipitation and that shows evidence of past or present flow. Exact limits for the terms large, perennial, and flow cannot be set.
4 days ago · Arctic Ocean, smallest of the world’s oceans, centering approximately on the North Pole. The Arctic Ocean and its marginal seas are the least-known basins and bodies of water in the world ocean as a result of their remoteness, hostile weather, and perennial or seasonal ice cover.
1 day ago · Its coastline is almost 18,000 km (11,200 mi) long: [1] as of 1983, of the four coastal types, 44% of the coast is floating ice in the form of an ice shelf, 38% consists of ice walls that rest on rock, 13% is ice streams or the edge of glaciers, and the remaining 5% is exposed rock.
1 day ago · The recently discovered layers of ice are not the same as the ancient permafrost formed during the last ice age, but rather were created under present-day conditions.
11 hours ago · The seasonal polar caps of Mars are mainly composed of carbon dioxide ice with some water ice. The ice partially sublimates (turns directly from solid ice into vapour) in spring, releasing large amounts of gas into Mars’ thin atmosphere.
5 days ago · The ice-covered area in the coated part was smaller than in the noncoated during the early part of the experiment, but eventually, the accreted rime ice covered both areas equally. The experiment was concluded when the ice accreted reached a thickness of 30 mm.
