80°S 60°E / 80°S 60°E / -80; 60 The East Antarctic Ice Sheet (EAIS) lies between 45° west and 168° east longitudinally. It was first formed around...
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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...
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current ice sheets are the Antarctic ice sheet and the Greenland ice sheet. Ice sheets are bigger than ice shelves or alpine glaciers. Masses of ice covering...
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27806°W / -78.73417; -133.27806 The West Antarctic Ice Sheet (WAIS) is the segment of the continental ice sheet that covers West Antarctica, the portion...
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causes net annual ice loss across Antarctica,: 1264 even as the East Antarctic ice sheet continues to gain ice inland. By 2100, net ice loss from Antarctica...
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formation of the Antarctic ice sheets. Six million years after the start of the Late Cenozoic Ice Age, the East Antarctic Ice Sheet had formed, and 14...
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Climate change in Antarctica (redirect from Antarctic cooling controversy)
causes net annual ice loss across Antarctica,: 1264 even as the East Antarctic ice sheet continues to gain ice inland. By 2100, net ice loss from Antarctica...
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buried by the East Antarctic Ice Sheet that has an average thickness of 2200 meters but reaches up to 4700 meters in some locations. East Antarctica is...
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stability of ice cover in Antarctica, where the thickness of the East Antarctic ice sheet allows it to rise nearly 4 km above the sea level, means that this...
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include: Greenland ice sheet disintegration, West Antarctic ice sheet disintegration, East Antarctic ice sheet disintegration, arctic sea ice decline, retreat...
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