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  2. Laurentide ice sheet - Wikipedia

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    Laurentide ice sheet. The maximum extent of glacial ice in the north polar area during the Pleistocene period included the vast Laurentide ice sheet in eastern North America. The Laurentide ice sheet was a massive sheet of ice that covered millions of square miles, including most of Canada and a large portion of the Northern United States ...

  3. Ice sheet - Wikipedia

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    Greenland ice sheet as seen from space. An ice sheet is a body of ice which covers a land area of continental size - meaning that it exceeds 50,000 km 2. [4] The currently existing two ice sheets in Greenland and Antarctica have a much greater area than this minimum definition, measuring at 1.7 million km 2 and 14 million km 2, respectively.

  4. Greenland ice sheet - Wikipedia

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    The Greenland ice sheet is an ice sheet which forms the second largest body of ice in the world. It is an average of 1.67 km (1.0 mi) thick, and over 3 km (1.9 mi) thick at its maximum. [ 2 ] It is almost 2,900 kilometres (1,800 mi) long in a north–south direction, with a maximum width of 1,100 kilometres (680 mi) at a latitude of 77°N, near ...

  5. Antarctic ice sheet - Wikipedia

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    The Antarctic ice sheet is a continental glacier covering 98% of the Antarctic continent, with an area of 14 million square kilometres (5.4 million square miles) and an average thickness of over 2 kilometres (1.2 mi). It is the largest of Earth's two current ice sheets, containing 26.5 million cubic kilometres (6,400,000 cubic miles) of ice ...

  6. Keewatin ice sheet - Wikipedia

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    Manitoba. Centered on the Kivalliq Region, Nunavut, Canada (known as the Keewatin Region, Northwest Territories, until 1999) (ca 102 W, 63 N) the ice sheet covered up to 2,500,000 km 2 (970,000 sq mi) the Last Glacial Maximum. At its greatest reach, (14*146=2044 N-S by 12*146=1752 E-W) the northern edge abutted the Greenland ice sheet in Baffin ...

  7. Tipping points in the climate system - Wikipedia

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    The Greenland ice sheet is the second largest ice sheet in the world, and is three times the size of the American state of Texas. [25] The water which it holds would, if completely melted, raise sea levels globally by 7.2 metres (24 ft). [ 26 ]

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