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Ice cap   /aɪs kæp/   Listen
Ice cap

noun
1.
A mass of ice and snow that permanently covers a large area of land (e.g., the polar regions or a mountain peak).  Synonym: icecap.





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... form of transported erratics, scratched and polished outcropping rocks, and moraine-like deposits. Finally, he became convinced that the ice sheet that covered the Alps had spread over the whole of the higher latitudes of the northern hemisphere, forming an ice cap over the globe. Thus the common-sense induction of the chamois-hunter blossomed in the mind of Agassiz into the conception of a ...
— A History of Science, Volume 3(of 5) • Henry Smith Williams


Words linked to "Ice cap" :   ice mass, icecap


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