ice sheet

常见例句

Melt along the southern edge of Greenland's ice sheet is now moving up its northwest coast, a new study shows.
一項新的研究表明，格陵蘭冰蓋南部沿線的冰融如今正蔓延到它的西北海岸線。
These findings have led to claims that a 2.5mile long comet or asteroid smashed into the ice sheet covering what is now Canada and the northern US.
這些發現得出了這樣一個結論，即2.5英裡長的彗星或者小行星猛烈撞擊了現今加拿大和美國北部覆蓋的冰層。
The Greenland ice sheet has survived natural warmer periods in history, the last about 120, 000 years ago, although it was much smaller then than it is now.
格陵蘭冰蓋在歷史上經歷過多個自然溫煖時期（最後一次是約120,000年以前）依然幸存，盡琯那時它比現在小得多。

As a result, the sea is eating away the edge of the ice sheet at a faster rate.
ECONOMIST: The science
The ice sheet's recent rate of loss—around 200 gigatonnes a year—represents a fourfold increase on a decade ago.
ECONOMIST: The science
But it did not destabilise the ice sheet or provide a new reason to worry about rising sea levels.
ECONOMIST: A meltdown tinged with acid