ice sheets

基本解释

They are also swollen by melting glaciers, ice caps and ice sheets: Greenland’s ice is on track to melt completely, which will eventually raise the sea level by about seven metres (23ft).
海洋也會因冰川、冰蓋和冰盾的融化而膨脹：格陵蘭島的冰正在処於完全融化的進程中，這將最終使海平麪陞高大約七米（23英尺）。
"For large periods of time the north was uninhabitable because of ice sheets coming and going, so there was less opportunity for culture to develop independently up there, " says von Petzinger.
“由於冰川來臨，北部在很長一段時間中都不適宜居住，所以獨立發展的人類文明在那裡出現的幾率比南部小。” 梵珮金格爾這樣說。
Thinning penetrated deep into the interior of the ice sheets and continues to spread as ice shelves melt into the sea.
變薄的現象已經遠遠滲透到冰原的腹地，而且隨著冰架曏海中延伸，冰川變薄的範圍也在擴大。

Signs of climate change include an increase in rain when there used to be only snow, new plant life,and melting ice sheets.
But scientists disagree about how much sea levels could rise if Antarctica's ice sheets continue to melt.
Many of the lakes around the Grand Tetons were formed millions of years ago by slow-moving sheets of ice.

Ice sheets are, by nature, located in the coldest, harshest, most inaccessible places on the planet.
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